The Continuity of Poetic Language: Studies in English Poetry from the 1540's to the 1940'sUniversity of California Press, 1951 - 542 pages |
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Page 119
... sound , juxtapositions of the abstract and the petty familiar in sense : the metaphysicians , whether religious or secular , on the side of Crashaw's ill - favored gnat . And other prose writers tended to combine cumulative spatial and ...
... sound , juxtapositions of the abstract and the petty familiar in sense : the metaphysicians , whether religious or secular , on the side of Crashaw's ill - favored gnat . And other prose writers tended to combine cumulative spatial and ...
Page 193
... sound . The alternating five and three accented couplets are written but not rhymed as couplets , so that the meas- ure does double work and becomes particularly memorable . All sorts of other sound devices make gentle links of sound at ...
... sound . The alternating five and three accented couplets are written but not rhymed as couplets , so that the meas- ure does double work and becomes particularly memorable . All sorts of other sound devices make gentle links of sound at ...
Page 511
... sound has moved increasingly into the structure , from its boundaries . In its forms of measure , sound has lightened , giving up the regularities of the primary iambic foot for an increasing number of lighter dactyls and anapests in ...
... sound has moved increasingly into the structure , from its boundaries . In its forms of measure , sound has lightened , giving up the regularities of the primary iambic foot for an increasing number of lighter dactyls and anapests in ...
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