Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... free verse , which , in some ways , stands between verse ( of the usual sort ) and prose . Stated most simply : free verse looks like verse , but sounds like prose . This chapter has so far ignored free verse , and has dealt princi ...
... free verse , which , in some ways , stands between verse ( of the usual sort ) and prose . Stated most simply : free verse looks like verse , but sounds like prose . This chapter has so far ignored free verse , and has dealt princi ...
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... free verse the reader will dis- cover no gross or subtle deviations . any This is not to say that free verse does not have " music . " But , rather , that the " music " of free verse is of a different sort . The melodic undulations of ...
... free verse the reader will dis- cover no gross or subtle deviations . any This is not to say that free verse does not have " music . " But , rather , that the " music " of free verse is of a different sort . The melodic undulations of ...
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... FREE LYRIC , a miscellaneous group of lyric poems not falling into any of the established sub - types , 409 . FREE VERSE , a modern system of versification ; a sort of oral and written language falling between verse and prose ; not ...
... FREE LYRIC , a miscellaneous group of lyric poems not falling into any of the established sub - types , 409 . FREE VERSE , a modern system of versification ; a sort of oral and written language falling between verse and prose ; not ...
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