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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... poets and poetry , though he may have intended it for praise , wrote this : A poet is indeed a thing ethereally light , winged , and sacred , nor can he compose anything worth calling poetry until he becomes inspired , and , as it were ...
... poets and poetry , though he may have intended it for praise , wrote this : A poet is indeed a thing ethereally light , winged , and sacred , nor can he compose anything worth calling poetry until he becomes inspired , and , as it were ...
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... poet , perhaps of the sixteenth century . I know nothing about the poet , nothing about the circumstances under which the poem was written . I only know that I like it , even though it gives me that same eavesdropping feeling which ...
... poet , perhaps of the sixteenth century . I know nothing about the poet , nothing about the circumstances under which the poem was written . I only know that I like it , even though it gives me that same eavesdropping feeling which ...
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... poet and the writer of what is only " popular verse . " In the second place , no matter how good his mind , a poet must have learned to use his tools ; he must be a skillful craftsman , a good tech- nician , capable of playing various ...
... poet and the writer of what is only " popular verse . " In the second place , no matter how good his mind , a poet must have learned to use his tools ; he must be a skillful craftsman , a good tech- nician , capable of playing various ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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