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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... SONG Cupid and my Campaspe played At cards for kisses ; Cupid paid . He stakes his quiver , bow and arrows , His Mother's doves , and team of sparrows ; Loses them too ; then , down he throws The coral of his lip , the rose Growing on's ...
... SONG Cupid and my Campaspe played At cards for kisses ; Cupid paid . He stakes his quiver , bow and arrows , His Mother's doves , and team of sparrows ; Loses them too ; then , down he throws The coral of his lip , the rose Growing on's ...
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... song " darkling I listen " -thinking melancholy thoughts such as he has thought for " many a time " when he has ... song is not to be touched by death . King and peasant heard it ages long ago ; Ruth , heroine of Old Testa- ment story ...
... song " darkling I listen " -thinking melancholy thoughts such as he has thought for " many a time " when he has ... song is not to be touched by death . King and peasant heard it ages long ago ; Ruth , heroine of Old Testa- ment story ...
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... Song for the Clatter Bones Song ( from Pippa Passes ) Song to Celia Sonnet ( Bright Star ) 463 463 315 294 265 Solitary Observation Brought Back from a Short Sojourn in Hell . 199 330 168 257 447 418 Sonnet ( from Idea ) 417 Sonnet LV ...
... Song for the Clatter Bones Song ( from Pippa Passes ) Song to Celia Sonnet ( Bright Star ) 463 463 315 294 265 Solitary Observation Brought Back from a Short Sojourn in Hell . 199 330 168 257 447 418 Sonnet ( from Idea ) 417 Sonnet LV ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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