Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... writer will make an effort to pin down his critical terms with working definitions , and strive to avoid those constructions in his writing that may leave his sentences open to several interpretations . For ambiguity is a fault when ...
... writer will make an effort to pin down his critical terms with working definitions , and strive to avoid those constructions in his writing that may leave his sentences open to several interpretations . For ambiguity is a fault when ...
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... writing some sort of a comment in verse or prose . ( c ) Or you may have some strong feeling about art , or the art and / or craft of poetry , that will get you under way in the writing of a poem . 19 DIVERS MOODS - COMIC AND SATIRIC ...
... writing some sort of a comment in verse or prose . ( c ) Or you may have some strong feeling about art , or the art and / or craft of poetry , that will get you under way in the writing of a poem . 19 DIVERS MOODS - COMIC AND SATIRIC ...
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... WRITING of verse : for choral reading , 377 ; of song - lyrics , 402 ; storycraft and poetcraft , 445 f .; a song of praise , 472 ; sonneteering , 473 f .; a prose poem on a liberal theme , 509 ; writing light verse , 540 ; restyling ...
... WRITING of verse : for choral reading , 377 ; of song - lyrics , 402 ; storycraft and poetcraft , 445 f .; a song of praise , 472 ; sonneteering , 473 f .; a prose poem on a liberal theme , 509 ; writing light verse , 540 ; restyling ...
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