The Groundwork of CriticismOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... star . Are limbs , so dear - achieved , are sides , Full - nerved - still warm - too hard to stir ? Was it for this the clay grew tall ? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all ? 8 . Sunset and evening star , 9 ...
... star . Are limbs , so dear - achieved , are sides , Full - nerved - still warm - too hard to stir ? Was it for this the clay grew tall ? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all ? 8 . Sunset and evening star , 9 ...
Page 128
... THE LITTLE DANCERS Lonely , save for a few faint stars , the sky Dreams ; and lonely , below , the little street Into its gloom retires , secluded and shy . Scarcely the dumb roar enters this soft retreat ; And 128 TRYING IT OUT.
... THE LITTLE DANCERS Lonely , save for a few faint stars , the sky Dreams ; and lonely , below , the little street Into its gloom retires , secluded and shy . Scarcely the dumb roar enters this soft retreat ; And 128 TRYING IT OUT.
Page 140
... stars are known to the Night ; As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain , As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness , To the end , to the end , they remain . LAURENCE ...
... stars are known to the Night ; As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain , As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness , To the end , to the end , they remain . LAURENCE ...
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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