The Groundwork of CriticismOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... LYRIC POETRY Lyric poetry is , perhaps , the earliest form of poetry . The first infant , in the very moment of birth , was , it would seem , the first lyric poet : we came crying hither : Thou know'st , the first time that we smell the ...
... LYRIC POETRY Lyric poetry is , perhaps , the earliest form of poetry . The first infant , in the very moment of birth , was , it would seem , the first lyric poet : we came crying hither : Thou know'st , the first time that we smell the ...
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... lyric poetry . In Robert Burns , the greatest lyrist in English literature , these characteristics are amply illustrated . There is , of course , a more elaborated form of lyric , in which more complex emotions are expressed , in more ...
... lyric poetry . In Robert Burns , the greatest lyrist in English literature , these characteristics are amply illustrated . There is , of course , a more elaborated form of lyric , in which more complex emotions are expressed , in more ...
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... lyric is the song lyric , which varies from the poem that is scarcely to be differentiated from the lyric to the verse form that is hardly to be recognized as poetry at all . Every year brings forth popular songs of this latter order ...
... lyric is the song lyric , which varies from the poem that is scarcely to be differentiated from the lyric to the verse form that is hardly to be recognized as poetry at all . Every year brings forth popular songs of this latter order ...
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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