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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... emotion . Intimate and detailed technical knowledge should be a safeguard against boiling at too low a temperature , against feeling , where one ought not , where one has no emotional right to feel . But it ought not to be a deterrent ...
... emotion . Intimate and detailed technical knowledge should be a safeguard against boiling at too low a temperature , against feeling , where one ought not , where one has no emotional right to feel . But it ought not to be a deterrent ...
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... emotion it means to arouse in a reader is somehow false . A person who is then stirred to this sort of false emotion is rightly described as sentimental , as a sentimentalist . Thus , when the situation or object is inadequate for the ...
... emotion it means to arouse in a reader is somehow false . A person who is then stirred to this sort of false emotion is rightly described as sentimental , as a sentimentalist . Thus , when the situation or object is inadequate for the ...
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... emotion , and it presents emotion , which is , humanly , more valuable than a merely objective image of a formal pool in a formal garden . " The Pool " contains emotion , too , a very different emotion , because conditioned by a very ...
... emotion , and it presents emotion , which is , humanly , more valuable than a merely objective image of a formal pool in a formal garden . " The Pool " contains emotion , too , a very different emotion , because conditioned by a very ...
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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