Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... things . First , they will say , no two equally competent observers will identify this presumed quality as possessed by the same things , or as possessed in the same degree in a certain thing . Second , different generations and peoples ...
... things . First , they will say , no two equally competent observers will identify this presumed quality as possessed by the same things , or as possessed in the same degree in a certain thing . Second , different generations and peoples ...
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... THINGS THERE ARE Margaret Yale Some things there are that were not meant for sharing : The sea at dawn , grey gulls against grey sky , A lonely wind , the rain . I should be caring For things that might be yours and mine : the shy And ...
... THINGS THERE ARE Margaret Yale Some things there are that were not meant for sharing : The sea at dawn , grey gulls against grey sky , A lonely wind , the rain . I should be caring For things that might be yours and mine : the shy And ...
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... thing to be defined is placed within the class of things to which it belongs and is then differentiated from the other members of the class . And we pro- posed some working definitions of this sort at the outset of our Preface to Poetry ...
... thing to be defined is placed within the class of things to which it belongs and is then differentiated from the other members of the class . And we pro- posed some working definitions of this sort at the outset of our Preface to Poetry ...
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