The Art of Reading PoetryFarrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1941 - 519 pages I do not believe that poetry is mysterious or esoteric. It is for all who can read, who can call words, who have rhythm enough, by nature, so that a jazz orchestra sets feet and hands in motion. Likewise, this invitation is to all. But it is, especially, invitation to those regretfully convinced that poetry is not for them, and to those who think they prefer the unequivocating directness of prose. It is invitation to labor, and after labor, entrance upon pleasure "not to be chang'd by place or time," the peculiar pleasure which poetry is. - Invitation to reading. |
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... become rhetorical . The real and the unreal are combined with telling effectiveness . No poet should carry unreality so far as to tax imaginative be- lief until his story becomes incredible . That is one reason why good poems , however ...
... become rhetorical . The real and the unreal are combined with telling effectiveness . No poet should carry unreality so far as to tax imaginative be- lief until his story becomes incredible . That is one reason why good poems , however ...
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... become lost in images which are , in the first place , too remote from the subjects of the poems ; and , in the second , worked out in so much detail as to become tedious ? Are they nothing more than what one critic has called ...
... become lost in images which are , in the first place , too remote from the subjects of the poems ; and , in the second , worked out in so much detail as to become tedious ? Are they nothing more than what one critic has called ...
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... become so elaborate as to draw attention to themselves , we are likely to become suspicious . They should not be merely decora- tive . But this is not true of older poetry . The similes in Homer , which run through so many lines a ...
... become so elaborate as to draw attention to themselves , we are likely to become suspicious . They should not be merely decora- tive . But this is not true of older poetry . The similes in Homer , which run through so many lines a ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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