The Groundwork of CriticismOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... spirit or atmosphere of the poem . Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum is mainly a narrative poem telling the old ... spirit . Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Christabel gain the reader's interest less by the story as such than by the ...
... spirit or atmosphere of the poem . Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum is mainly a narrative poem telling the old ... spirit . Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Christabel gain the reader's interest less by the story as such than by the ...
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... spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings . - We decay Like corpses in a charnel ; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day , And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay . He has outsoared the shadow of our night ...
... spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings . - We decay Like corpses in a charnel ; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day , And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay . He has outsoared the shadow of our night ...
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... spirit thou lamentest is not gone ; Ye caverns and ye forests , cease to moan ! Cease ye faint flowers and fountains , and thou Air , Which like a mourning veil thy scarf hadst thrown O'er the abandoned Earth , now leave it bare Even to ...
... spirit thou lamentest is not gone ; Ye caverns and ye forests , cease to moan ! Cease ye faint flowers and fountains , and thou Air , Which like a mourning veil thy scarf hadst thrown O'er the abandoned Earth , now leave it bare Even to ...
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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