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... diction of the eighteenth century were startled and often repelled when they read the " Lyrical Ballads " . There is no need to be put off by the apparent difficulty of much modern verse ; what is required from the reader is that ...
... diction of the eighteenth century were startled and often repelled when they read the " Lyrical Ballads " . There is no need to be put off by the apparent difficulty of much modern verse ; what is required from the reader is that ...
Page 77
... diction . " This " untranslatableness is our major test of the diction employed by poets . Poetry is much more compressed and intense than prose , and so demands a highly imaginative use of language if the feelings aroused in the reader ...
... diction . " This " untranslatableness is our major test of the diction employed by poets . Poetry is much more compressed and intense than prose , and so demands a highly imaginative use of language if the feelings aroused in the reader ...
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... diction alone , the following passages as " Elizabethan " , " Metaphysical " , Eighteenth Century " , " Romantic " , and " Modern " ; nobody can truly judge their poetic worth who does not seek to discover the poet's purpose , and then ...
... diction alone , the following passages as " Elizabethan " , " Metaphysical " , Eighteenth Century " , " Romantic " , and " Modern " ; nobody can truly judge their poetic worth who does not seek to discover the poet's purpose , and then ...
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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