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Page 34
... beginning cultivate our taste , and advance surely to a true appreciation of fine writing by considering form only in relation to matter . The only sound way to consider style is to regard it as something functional . In trying to ...
... beginning cultivate our taste , and advance surely to a true appreciation of fine writing by considering form only in relation to matter . The only sound way to consider style is to regard it as something functional . In trying to ...
Page 122
... beginning " Yet even these bones " , are to me original ; I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here , persuades himself that he has always felt them . Had Gray written often thus , it had been vain ...
... beginning " Yet even these bones " , are to me original ; I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here , persuades himself that he has always felt them . Had Gray written often thus , it had been vain ...
Page 134
... beginning of the line expressing the gathering impulse of the bird's song before the first full notes trill out . In a full - hearted evensong In the same verse , counterpointing is again used to emphasize meaning . The exact ...
... beginning of the line expressing the gathering impulse of the bird's song before the first full notes trill out . In a full - hearted evensong In the same verse , counterpointing is again used to emphasize meaning . The exact ...
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination Johnson judge Keats light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest restricted poetry rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth write