The Groundwork of CriticismOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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Page 26
... I am slain by a fair cruel maid . My shroud of white , stuck all with yew , O , prepare it ! My part of death , no one so true Did share it . harmonizes admirably with the sentimentality of Duke Orsino and the 26 KINDS OF POETRY.
... I am slain by a fair cruel maid . My shroud of white , stuck all with yew , O , prepare it ! My part of death , no one so true Did share it . harmonizes admirably with the sentimentality of Duke Orsino and the 26 KINDS OF POETRY.
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... fair annoys , Yet wit ne'er tastes , and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well - bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite . Eternal smiles his emptiness betray , As shallow streams run dimpling all the way ...
... fair annoys , Yet wit ne'er tastes , and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well - bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite . Eternal smiles his emptiness betray , As shallow streams run dimpling all the way ...
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... fair sun , and kill the envious moon , Who is already sick and pale with grief , That thou her maid art far more fair than she : Be not her maid , since she is envious ; Her vestal livery is but sick and green , And none but fools do ...
... fair sun , and kill the envious moon , Who is already sick and pale with grief , That thou her maid art far more fair than she : Be not her maid , since she is envious ; Her vestal livery is but sick and green , And none but fools do ...
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Groundwork of Criticism Judging Poetry (Classic Reprint) Stanley C. Glassey No preview available - 2018 |
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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