Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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Page 216
... tell me you are wicked and I believe them , for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys . And they tell me you are crooked and I answer : Yes , it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill ...
... tell me you are wicked and I believe them , for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys . And they tell me you are crooked and I answer : Yes , it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill ...
Page 347
... tell me truly , I implore : Is there is there balm in Gilead ? -tell me tell me , I implore ! " Quoth the Raven , " Nevermore . " " Prophet ! " said I , " thing of evil - prophet still , if bird or devil ! By that Heaven that bends ...
... tell me truly , I implore : Is there is there balm in Gilead ? -tell me tell me , I implore ! " Quoth the Raven , " Nevermore . " " Prophet ! " said I , " thing of evil - prophet still , if bird or devil ! By that Heaven that bends ...
Page 388
... Tell ole 8f2 Pha - raoh , To let my peo - ple go . O let my peo - ple go .. GO DOWN , MOSES Go down , Moses , ' Way down in Egypt land , Tell ole Pharaoh , To let my people go . When Israel was in Egypt land : Let my people go ...
... Tell ole 8f2 Pha - raoh , To let my peo - ple go . O let my peo - ple go .. GO DOWN , MOSES Go down , Moses , ' Way down in Egypt land , Tell ole Pharaoh , To let my people go . When Israel was in Egypt land : Let my people go ...
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