Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... Young , ” “ The Lads in Their Hundreds , " and " Is My Team Ploughing " from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman . STEPHEN SPENDER , the poet , for " Oh Young Men , Oh Young Com- rades . " JAMES STEPHENS , the poet , for " The Daisies ...
... Young , ” “ The Lads in Their Hundreds , " and " Is My Team Ploughing " from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman . STEPHEN SPENDER , the poet , for " Oh Young Men , Oh Young Com- rades . " JAMES STEPHENS , the poet , for " The Daisies ...
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... young man ? " " I hae been to the wild wood ; mother , make my bed soon , For I'm weary wi hunting , and fain wald lie down . " " Where gat ye your dinner , Lord Randal , my son ? Where gat ye your dinner , my handsome young man ? " " I ...
... young man ? " " I hae been to the wild wood ; mother , make my bed soon , For I'm weary wi hunting , and fain wald lie down . " " Where gat ye your dinner , Lord Randal , my son ? Where gat ye your dinner , my handsome young man ? " " I ...
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... them where the giving is most blest . What should we save them for , —a night of frost ? . . . All lost for nothing , and ourselves a ghost . ( 1931 ) oh OH YOUNG MEN OH YOUNG COMRADES young men oh THE BROAD TYPES - NARRATIVE AND LYRIC 44I.
... them where the giving is most blest . What should we save them for , —a night of frost ? . . . All lost for nothing , and ourselves a ghost . ( 1931 ) oh OH YOUNG MEN OH YOUNG COMRADES young men oh THE BROAD TYPES - NARRATIVE AND LYRIC 44I.
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