The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... tell us that the poetry of Dryden and Pope is second - rate because it is almost exclusively didactic or satiric , and that the poetry of Herrick is second - rate because it seems to him to lack high purpose . Another will tell us that ...
... tell us that the poetry of Dryden and Pope is second - rate because it is almost exclusively didactic or satiric , and that the poetry of Herrick is second - rate because it seems to him to lack high purpose . Another will tell us that ...
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... tell a story but to kill folly by ridicule . Futility , the futility of life and human institutions is a dominant note in much modern poetry , especially that inspired by the Great War of 1914–18 . It may now be of interest to study the ...
... tell a story but to kill folly by ridicule . Futility , the futility of life and human institutions is a dominant note in much modern poetry , especially that inspired by the Great War of 1914–18 . It may now be of interest to study the ...
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... Tell where I lie . ALEXANDER POPE What does the poem interpret for us ? It fuses in a new setting the old Horatian virtue of self - sufficiency and modera- tion , the Christian virtue of acceptance and resignation , and the Victorian ...
... Tell where I lie . ALEXANDER POPE What does the poem interpret for us ? It fuses in a new setting the old Horatian virtue of self - sufficiency and modera- tion , the Christian virtue of acceptance and resignation , and the Victorian ...
Contents
WHAT IS POETRY? EXERCISES | 7 |
KINDS OF POETRY | 19 |
INFLUENCES IV WORDS V IMAGERY EXERCISES VI SWING EXERCISES 7 19 | 37 |
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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