Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... reader's effort to answer them , may have suggested the way in which meaning is dependent upon context , both verbal and vital . The process of communicating thought is indeed more complex than it may at first seem . It would be so easy ...
... reader's effort to answer them , may have suggested the way in which meaning is dependent upon context , both verbal and vital . The process of communicating thought is indeed more complex than it may at first seem . It would be so easy ...
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... reader is somewhat comparable to the feeling phase of the full meaning of the poem , as he inter- prets it , he will judge that communication of emotion has taken place , and the poem - reading - experience may be thought of as most ...
... reader is somewhat comparable to the feeling phase of the full meaning of the poem , as he inter- prets it , he will judge that communication of emotion has taken place , and the poem - reading - experience may be thought of as most ...
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Charles William Cooper, John Holmes. the reader's emotional experiences and nature . The reader's own past and present desires and ambitions and longings , whether ulti- mately frustrated or fulfilled , his own body and actions and ...
Charles William Cooper, John Holmes. the reader's emotional experiences and nature . The reader's own past and present desires and ambitions and longings , whether ulti- mately frustrated or fulfilled , his own body and actions and ...
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