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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... heart , her heart was voluble , Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain , and die , heart - stifled , in her dell . A casement high and triple arch'd there was , All ...
... heart , her heart was voluble , Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain , and die , heart - stifled , in her dell . A casement high and triple arch'd there was , All ...
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... heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot ; My heart is like an apple - tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit ; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea ; My heart is gladder than all ...
... heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot ; My heart is like an apple - tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit ; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea ; My heart is gladder than all ...
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... heart of a dead man the seed - plots are dry ; From the thicket of thorns whence the nightingale calls not , Could she call , there were never a rose to reply . Over ... Heart handfast in heart as they stood , 454 THE ART OF READING POETRY.
... heart of a dead man the seed - plots are dry ; From the thicket of thorns whence the nightingale calls not , Could she call , there were never a rose to reply . Over ... Heart handfast in heart as they stood , 454 THE ART OF READING POETRY.
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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