Types of English PoetryRudolf Kirk, Clara Marburg Kirk Macmillan, 1940 - 663 pages |
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... feel that they are moved and softened , yet know not whence or why . " The wisdom to be found in poetry , then , is that which one feels when " the veil of the familiar ” is removed , when the mind is awakened and enlarged so that it ...
... feel that they are moved and softened , yet know not whence or why . " The wisdom to be found in poetry , then , is that which one feels when " the veil of the familiar ” is removed , when the mind is awakened and enlarged so that it ...
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... feel between rhythm and meter is in every case essentially unique . Rime is simply another way of tighten- ing the organization of the poem against which the larger rhythm struggles . Listen to the use Wordsworth makes of rime , for ...
... feel between rhythm and meter is in every case essentially unique . Rime is simply another way of tighten- ing the organization of the poem against which the larger rhythm struggles . Listen to the use Wordsworth makes of rime , for ...
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... feel the abstract in the concrete , and the concrete in the abstract , and thus to give meaning to our otherwise not quite realized lives . Coleridge's description of " the streamy nature of association which thinking curbs and rudders ...
... feel the abstract in the concrete , and the concrete in the abstract , and thus to give meaning to our otherwise not quite realized lives . Coleridge's description of " the streamy nature of association which thinking curbs and rudders ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE POETRY | 38 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 42 |
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