Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... phrases will be employed to indicate which sense is intended . The following phrases or their equivalents will recur ... phrase of each stanza.2 No one but Masefield himself will ever know exactly what the poet's experience was at any ...
... phrases will be employed to indicate which sense is intended . The following phrases or their equivalents will recur ... phrase of each stanza.2 No one but Masefield himself will ever know exactly what the poet's experience was at any ...
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... phrases " speaking carefully , " " evasively , ” " mysteriously , " and " ambiguously " also describe particular kinds of intention that may be a part of a full meaning . Feeling , as an- other phase of meaning , is the indication of ...
... phrases " speaking carefully , " " evasively , ” " mysteriously , " and " ambiguously " also describe particular kinds of intention that may be a part of a full meaning . Feeling , as an- other phase of meaning , is the indication of ...
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... phrase may serve to stimulate the reader's closer attention to the poem itself and to his own experience of it . O ... phrases that invite special at- tention- " kindly Light , " " far from home , " " the distant scene , " " the garish ...
... phrase may serve to stimulate the reader's closer attention to the poem itself and to his own experience of it . O ... phrases that invite special at- tention- " kindly Light , " " far from home , " " the distant scene , " " the garish ...
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