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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... never felt the glow which ought to result from intelligent reading , their hearts have never been warmed at the fire of Keats ' record of intellectual adventure . And without a new and a different point of departure , their hearts never ...
... never felt the glow which ought to result from intelligent reading , their hearts have never been warmed at the fire of Keats ' record of intellectual adventure . And without a new and a different point of departure , their hearts never ...
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... never clogged by tedium of excessive character analysis , a fault of many modern stories . Probably Aristotle was right again when he wrote that action is the chief thing of all . Still these characters , for all their legendary ...
... never clogged by tedium of excessive character analysis , a fault of many modern stories . Probably Aristotle was right again when he wrote that action is the chief thing of all . Still these characters , for all their legendary ...
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... NEVER SAW A MOOR " I never saw a moor , I never saw the sea ; Yet know I how the heather looks , And what a wave must be . I never spoke with God , Nor visited in heaven ; Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given . -EMILY ...
... NEVER SAW A MOOR " I never saw a moor , I never saw the sea ; Yet know I how the heather looks , And what a wave must be . I never spoke with God , Nor visited in heaven ; Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given . -EMILY ...
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