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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... eyes for all that they desire . Full of this whim was thoughtful Madeline : The music , yearning like a God in pain , She scarcely heard : her maiden eyes divine , Fix'd on the floor , saw many a sweeping train Pass by - she heeded not ...
... eyes for all that they desire . Full of this whim was thoughtful Madeline : The music , yearning like a God in pain , She scarcely heard : her maiden eyes divine , Fix'd on the floor , saw many a sweeping train Pass by - she heeded not ...
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... eyes , for meek St. Agnes ' sake , 270 Or I shall drowse beside thee , so my soul doth ache . " Thus whispering , his warm , unnerved arm 280 Sank in her pillow . Shaded was her dream By the dusk curtains : - ' twas a midnight charm ...
... eyes , for meek St. Agnes ' sake , 270 Or I shall drowse beside thee , so my soul doth ache . " Thus whispering , his warm , unnerved arm 280 Sank in her pillow . Shaded was her dream By the dusk curtains : - ' twas a midnight charm ...
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... eye . -JOHN MILTON " TWENTY - FOUR YEARS REMIND THE TEARS OF MY EYES " Twenty - four years remind the tears of my eyes . ( Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour . ) In the groin of the natural doorway I crouched ...
... eye . -JOHN MILTON " TWENTY - FOUR YEARS REMIND THE TEARS OF MY EYES " Twenty - four years remind the tears of my eyes . ( Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour . ) In the groin of the natural doorway I crouched ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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