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... write poetry ; what makes good litera- ture ; what criticism is ; how to learn to appreciate poetry . This book seeks to provide an answer to such questions as these . One of the commonest questions asked by students of English ...
... write poetry ; what makes good litera- ture ; what criticism is ; how to learn to appreciate poetry . This book seeks to provide an answer to such questions as these . One of the commonest questions asked by students of English ...
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... writer should invent to epitomize the contents of the passage with which he is dealing . It is , as it were , a ... writing about it . ( See also Chapter II . ) But , whether modified later or not , a generalization such as this is an ...
... writer should invent to epitomize the contents of the passage with which he is dealing . It is , as it were , a ... writing about it . ( See also Chapter II . ) But , whether modified later or not , a generalization such as this is an ...
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... writing a pamphlet against it . That the mildness of Dempster's disposition had , however , relented ; and he had ... write one . You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table , though you cannot make a table . It is not your ...
... writing a pamphlet against it . That the mildness of Dempster's disposition had , however , relented ; and he had ... write one . You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table , though you cannot make a table . It is not your ...
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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