Types of English PoetryRudolf Kirk, Clara Marburg Kirk |
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... poetry . It is more especially for those who not only enjoy reading poetry , but who also are pleased by questions as to the nature and quality of their enjoyment . Such questions have to do more or less directly with the meaning of ...
... poetry . It is more especially for those who not only enjoy reading poetry , but who also are pleased by questions as to the nature and quality of their enjoyment . Such questions have to do more or less directly with the meaning of ...
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... poetry , to be capable of fulfilling such high destinies , must be poetry of a high order of excellence , " able to interpret life for us , to console us , and to sustain us . The strength and joy drawn from " the classics " -a term ...
... poetry , to be capable of fulfilling such high destinies , must be poetry of a high order of excellence , " able to interpret life for us , to console us , and to sustain us . The strength and joy drawn from " the classics " -a term ...
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... poetry to hear it , and see it , and share in its mood , we ourselves learn indirectly the meaning of these basic emotions . Like the poet , we feel a new inner harmony which makes us at once more detached from the world about us and ...
... poetry to hear it , and see it , and share in its mood , we ourselves learn indirectly the meaning of these basic emotions . Like the poet , we feel a new inner harmony which makes us at once more detached from the world about us and ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION I | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE POETRY | 37 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 42 |
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A. E. Housman Afrasiab arms ballad beauty bird breath bright Brignal Camelot century cloud dead dear death delight doth dream earth eccho ring EDMUND SPENSER eternal eyes face fair fayre fear flowers GEOFFREY CHAUCER golden green hair hand hath head hear heard heart Hell and Heaven King kiss Lady of Shalott light Little brother live look lords Lycidas lyric poetry Mary Mother Matthew Arnold medieval moon mordre morn narrative poetry never night nymph o'er Oxus poem poets queen rose round Rustum sand sigh sight sing Sister Helen sleep smile soft Sohrab song soul sound spake spirit spring stars stood stream Sumer Is Icumen sweet sylphs Tartar tears Thalestris thee theyr thine things thou art thou hast thought unto voice weep whan wind wings woods youth