Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... serve these functions separately . Second , words have meaning only when they are put to work by speaker or hearer , by writer or reader ; they acquire meaning from their context , the surroundings and the cir- cumstances of their use ...
... serve these functions separately . Second , words have meaning only when they are put to work by speaker or hearer , by writer or reader ; they acquire meaning from their context , the surroundings and the cir- cumstances of their use ...
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... serve Him best . His state Is kingly . Thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest . They also serve who only stand and wait . ( c . 1655 ) It does not seem possible to consider the residual attitude that ...
... serve Him best . His state Is kingly . Thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest . They also serve who only stand and wait . ( c . 1655 ) It does not seem possible to consider the residual attitude that ...
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... serve what he thought of as God's Cause in the Latin Sec retaryship , he would stand ready to serve God when and where he could . And out of his blind years came Paradise Lost . So I am myself stirred as I come to recognize Milton's ...
... serve what he thought of as God's Cause in the Latin Sec retaryship , he would stand ready to serve God when and where he could . And out of his blind years came Paradise Lost . So I am myself stirred as I come to recognize Milton's ...
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