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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... less the poet , the poem is less the poem , than he , and it , ought to be . This is one reason why the old popular ballads , like " Sir Patrick Spens , " are good for cultivating an early acquaintance with poetry . No one knows the ...
... less the poet , the poem is less the poem , than he , and it , ought to be . This is one reason why the old popular ballads , like " Sir Patrick Spens , " are good for cultivating an early acquaintance with poetry . No one knows the ...
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... less alive , often more alive , than men about us in the flesh , cannot , for their complexity , be understood at a single read- ing ; and they cannot be passed over and forgotten ; with them , the facts are so much less than all . The ...
... less alive , often more alive , than men about us in the flesh , cannot , for their complexity , be understood at a single read- ing ; and they cannot be passed over and forgotten ; with them , the facts are so much less than all . The ...
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... less autobiographical , less selfish . One to whom the heart upon the sleeve is repugnant turns , relieved , to the protection of the more impersonal way of established convention . But because he writes within a convention , a poet ...
... less autobiographical , less selfish . One to whom the heart upon the sleeve is repugnant turns , relieved , to the protection of the more impersonal way of established convention . But because he writes within a convention , a poet ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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