Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... rhythm , for though it is the chief rhythm that may be felt , there are other rhythms too . But these subordinate rhythms will be taken up later in this chapter ; now our attention will be given to the principal 7 rhythm , the poetic ...
... rhythm , for though it is the chief rhythm that may be felt , there are other rhythms too . But these subordinate rhythms will be taken up later in this chapter ; now our attention will be given to the principal 7 rhythm , the poetic ...
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... rhythm . But after discovering how the poem goes , the reader makes the further discovery that it doesn't go exactly that way after all - it only TENDS to go that way . For the poetic rhythm , the most conspicuous feature of the music ...
... rhythm . But after discovering how the poem goes , the reader makes the further discovery that it doesn't go exactly that way after all - it only TENDS to go that way . For the poetic rhythm , the most conspicuous feature of the music ...
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... rhythm of this ( for me ) comely and graceful Elizabethan lyric . It is still a two- or three - valued analysis , taking no account of the many differ- ent degrees of stress , of the larger movements in pitch of the mel- ody , of the ...
... rhythm of this ( for me ) comely and graceful Elizabethan lyric . It is still a two- or three - valued analysis , taking no account of the many differ- ent degrees of stress , of the larger movements in pitch of the mel- ody , of the ...
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