The Groundwork of CriticismOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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Page 68
... moon is admirably presented to us by the opening lines of a sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney , With how sad steps , O Moon , thou climb'st the skies ! How silently , and with how wan a face ! Here the familiar experience is re - created for ...
... moon is admirably presented to us by the opening lines of a sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney , With how sad steps , O Moon , thou climb'st the skies ! How silently , and with how wan a face ! Here the familiar experience is re - created for ...
Page 69
... moon with which we are familiar , the appearance of the moon when clouds are driven by the wind between earth and moon , and the moon seems to dip to let them pass , is presented sharply to our minds by the lines in Milton's Il ...
... moon with which we are familiar , the appearance of the moon when clouds are driven by the wind between earth and moon , and the moon seems to dip to let them pass , is presented sharply to our minds by the lines in Milton's Il ...
Page 113
... moon through curled ice of the spinney frozen with flowers— " The bery old man in the moon , does he wear a beret ? ' The poet in the glassy office doorway , unable to remember the Professor's Christian name ; and the man I love , in ...
... moon through curled ice of the spinney frozen with flowers— " The bery old man in the moon , does he wear a beret ? ' The poet in the glassy office doorway , unable to remember the Professor's Christian name ; and the man I love , in ...
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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