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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Earl Richardson Knapp Daniels. responsibility to a prospective reader . They wrap the mantle of indif- ference about them with an attention - compelling gesture which is an invitation to suspicion . Now a reader has , as reader , a ...
Earl Richardson Knapp Daniels. responsibility to a prospective reader . They wrap the mantle of indif- ference about them with an attention - compelling gesture which is an invitation to suspicion . Now a reader has , as reader , a ...
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... reader in the poem . It has already been said that a poet writes with all he is and knows . Usually , he knows more than his reader , who must bridge that gulf in knowledge if he is to read . Among the contemporaries , T. S. Eliot is an ...
... reader in the poem . It has already been said that a poet writes with all he is and knows . Usually , he knows more than his reader , who must bridge that gulf in knowledge if he is to read . Among the contemporaries , T. S. Eliot is an ...
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... reader must come through this speaker , modi- fied and shaped by his personality , his attitudes , his interpretations of facts . One of the poet's problems is to present this narrator so clearly , though he must from the nature of the ...
... reader must come through this speaker , modi- fied and shaped by his personality , his attitudes , his interpretations of facts . One of the poet's problems is to present this narrator so clearly , though he must from the nature of the ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
Copyright | |
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