Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... sort of effect in the reader . This special sort of effect is that complex combination of rhythmic and sound patterns , image pattern , mean- ing pattern , and feeling pattern outlined in the last chapter and there called a poem ...
... sort of effect in the reader . This special sort of effect is that complex combination of rhythmic and sound patterns , image pattern , mean- ing pattern , and feeling pattern outlined in the last chapter and there called a poem ...
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... sort of imagery may be illustrated by the form " West Wind " in a white field of stimulated rods and cones in the retina of the eye . The second sort of imagery would be the sounds " west wind , " which in silent reading are immediately ...
... sort of imagery may be illustrated by the form " West Wind " in a white field of stimulated rods and cones in the retina of the eye . The second sort of imagery would be the sounds " west wind , " which in silent reading are immediately ...
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... sort them out according to this six - fold scheme ; and present your classification in the form of an outline . ( c ) For which ones of your categories do you not find examples in the designated chapters ? 9. Prose - poem . ( a ) The ...
... sort them out according to this six - fold scheme ; and present your classification in the form of an outline . ( c ) For which ones of your categories do you not find examples in the designated chapters ? 9. Prose - poem . ( a ) 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