The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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Page 52
... seems so fair into a nightmare of horror and repulsion . These aspects of the varied scene on which the modern poet has gazed may be seen with varying degrees of obscurity in such poems as T. S. Eliot's Difficulties of a Statesman , a ...
... seems so fair into a nightmare of horror and repulsion . These aspects of the varied scene on which the modern poet has gazed may be seen with varying degrees of obscurity in such poems as T. S. Eliot's Difficulties of a Statesman , a ...
Page 76
... seems inevitable that one should regard such love in such a way . 2 . A face that's best By its own beauty drest , And can alone commend the rest : A face made up Out of no other shop Than what Nature's white hand sets ope . 2. In the ...
... seems inevitable that one should regard such love in such a way . 2 . A face that's best By its own beauty drest , And can alone commend the rest : A face made up Out of no other shop Than what Nature's white hand sets ope . 2. In the ...
Page 126
... seems to have lengthened . Eve is still a child , though now a half- defeated child . Satan seems older , having established an ascendancy , though there is nothing very definite to go on , except Eve's attention , his grave low tones ...
... seems to have lengthened . Eve is still a child , though now a half- defeated child . Satan seems older , having established an ascendancy , though there is nothing very definite to go on , except Eve's attention , his grave low tones ...
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ALEXANDER POPE alley anapaests bear beauty breath Cheddar Pinks conceit dactyl daffodils dance dark darling dead death doth dreams dying earth echoes Elegy emotive example expression eyes Faerie Queene fancy feel feet figurative language flowers following passage following poem foot Hamlet hath hear heart heaven human iambic idea imagery images inverted stress LAURENCE BINYON light lines lives LORD TENNYSON Lycidas lyric maid MATTHEW ARNOLD metaphor metre mind moon narrative poems nature ne'er o'er pale phrase plays poet poet's poetry questions printed Read carefully rhyme rhythm ROBERT ROBERT BURNS round Sally satiric scene sense Shakespeare's sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speech spirit spondee stanza stars STEPHEN SPENDER stressed syllable strong stress suggests sweet T. S. Eliot thee theme thine things thou thought trochees unstressed verse W. B. Yeats Wilfred Owen WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words