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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... appears without a modifying adjective like imitation or art it is to be under- stood to mean specifically the folk or ... appear in from two to more than twenty versions , some so dif- ferent they are with difficulty recognizable as ...
... appears without a modifying adjective like imitation or art it is to be under- stood to mean specifically the folk or ... appear in from two to more than twenty versions , some so dif- ferent they are with difficulty recognizable as ...
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... And I saw a boat appear . The Pilot and the Pilot's boy , I heard them coming fast : Dear Lord in Heaven ! it was a joy The dead men could not blast . I saw a third - I heard his voice : THE POEM AS STORY ( II ) THE BALLAD 189.
... And I saw a boat appear . The Pilot and the Pilot's boy , I heard them coming fast : Dear Lord in Heaven ! it was a joy The dead men could not blast . I saw a third - I heard his voice : THE POEM AS STORY ( II ) THE BALLAD 189.
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... appear as objec- tive as possible , even cold toward his material , in order that he may avoid softness and sloppiness . He knew that anyone who worked through to appreciate what he had written would also experience with him the deeps ...
... appear as objec- tive as possible , even cold toward his material , in order that he may avoid softness and sloppiness . He knew that anyone who worked through to appreciate what he had written would also experience with him the deeps ...
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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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON ANDREW MARVELL ballad beauty beginning bird breath caesuras contrast conventional dark dead death detail Don John doth dream earth effect emotion English experience eyes fairy fear feeling garden hand hath heard heart heaven human idea imagery imagination John Donne JOHN KEATS John of Austria Keats kind King lady light lines live look meaning Milton mind Miss mood moon mother never night nightingale o'er once pattern phrase pleasure poem poet poet's prayer prose reader reading poetry rest rhythm rime rose seems Shakespeare ship sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep song sonnet soul sound spirit stars story stress Suggestions sweet syllables tears thee thine things Thomas Rymer thou thought Three Ravens tree turn verse voice WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words