The Pleasure of Poetry: Reading and Enjoying British Poetry from Donne to BurnsBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuli 2006 - 280 pages The poetry produced by the British poets of the 17th and 18th centuries is considered to be among the best ever written. But many general readers feel intimidated by the language or structure of the poetry, and so tend to shy away from enjoying these poets and their works. Nelson takes readers on a tour of the major works and figures of 17th- and 18th-century British poetry, explaining major themes, devices, styles, language, rhythm, sound, tone, imagery, form, and meaning. Beginning each chapter with a sketch of the poet's life and career, the author then looks at five or six representative works, helping readers understand and appreciate the beauty of poetry itself. |
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... mind ) To scorn delights , and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find , profits reward And think to burst out into sudden blaze , Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears , And slits the thin - spun life ...
... mind , from pleasure less , Withdraws into its happiness ; The mind , that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find ; Yet it creates , transcending these , Far other worlds and other seas , Annihilating all that's ...
... mind ? ( 51-62 ) Her good deeds , Swift maintains , are more substantial than such shadows and chimeras , which leave no presence on the mind or in the memory as they pass by . They are more like the nourishing food from the past that ...
Contents
Introduction to Reading Poetry | 1 |
Poet of Secular and Sacred Love | 19 |
Elegist Satirist and Moralist | 37 |
Copyright | |
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