Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... persons already favorably disposed toward poetry are often eager to know more about it ; and those who are ill disposed toward it , may be willing to undertake a study of it that is bound to shed some new and perhaps interesting light ...
... persons already favorably disposed toward poetry are often eager to know more about it ; and those who are ill disposed toward it , may be willing to undertake a study of it that is bound to shed some new and perhaps interesting light ...
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... person's assuming a belligerent attitude — he does no fighting at the moment , but he is apparently ready to do so ... persons have at some time had the experience of the Wedding Guest in Coleridge's poem , who was held by the eye of ...
... person's assuming a belligerent attitude — he does no fighting at the moment , but he is apparently ready to do so ... persons have at some time had the experience of the Wedding Guest in Coleridge's poem , who was held by the eye of ...
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... persons in one age , and no immediate value at all for most of the persons of another age , and that many " representative " and " revealing " poems of the past are not poems at all for modern readers . It is of value , however , to ...
... persons in one age , and no immediate value at all for most of the persons of another age , and that many " representative " and " revealing " poems of the past are not poems at all for modern readers . It is of value , however , to ...
Contents
ORIENTATION TO POETRY i Preconceptions and Pointers | 3 |
In Search of Poetry | 21 |
Language and Art | 42 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman aloud Amy Lowell anapestic attitudes auditory ballad Beauty breath called chapter clouds critical dead death dream E. E. Cummings earth emotional response experience eye-movements eyes free imagery free verse Frost full meaning give hand hath heard heart heaven I. A. Richards iambic interpretation John Keats King language listening look Lord Lord Randal Louis Untermeyer lyric metrical pattern metrical variation mind's-ear mood never night over-all meaning persons phrase poem poem-experience poem-reading-experience poet poetic form poetic rhythm poetry printed verses prose reader reading recorded reread rime Robert Robert Frost rose Sea-Fever sense pattern silent sing song sonnet sort soul sound pattern speech stanza stanzaic form stir stressed SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY sweet syllables T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought tion tone translation turn Vincent Millay visual voice wind words