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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... ballad makes for confusion , for it is loosely used , in senses so varying that it has come to mean almost nothing precise and definite . It appears in the titles of poems as different , as seemingly unrelated as " The Ballad of Reading ...
... ballad makes for confusion , for it is loosely used , in senses so varying that it has come to mean almost nothing precise and definite . It appears in the titles of poems as different , as seemingly unrelated as " The Ballad of Reading ...
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... ballad has meant and means , so that it is necessary to consider carefully particular circumstances of a particular use if the word is to have specific meaning . Here it will be ... ballad , can be THE POEM AS STORY ( II ) THE BALLAD 129.
... ballad has meant and means , so that it is necessary to consider carefully particular circumstances of a particular use if the word is to have specific meaning . Here it will be ... ballad , can be THE POEM AS STORY ( II ) THE BALLAD 129.
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... ballad motives , good , if for nothing else , in helping to emphasize the relative meagerness of ballad material , and then , as acquaintance with ballad literature grows , also to emphasize the infinite riches in a little room which ...
... ballad motives , good , if for nothing else , in helping to emphasize the relative meagerness of ballad material , and then , as acquaintance with ballad literature grows , also to emphasize the infinite riches in a little room which ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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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