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... poets , but with the firm belief that exercise in verse is the best possible aid to easy flexibility in prose ... poet . On the contrary , it is likely to take down his vanity by showing him how easy it is to acquire the elements ...
... poets , but with the firm belief that exercise in verse is the best possible aid to easy flexibility in prose ... poet . On the contrary , it is likely to take down his vanity by showing him how easy it is to acquire the elements ...
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... poet's trade . Although poets are said to be born and not made , there is no doubt that they have to be made after they are born . It is not a fact that the born poet warbles native wood - notes wild ; he has to serve an ap ...
... poet's trade . Although poets are said to be born and not made , there is no doubt that they have to be made after they are born . It is not a fact that the born poet warbles native wood - notes wild ; he has to serve an ap ...
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... poets themselves . The processes of their art are con- sidered with unfailing zest by Pope and Wordsworth , by Coleridge ... poet's message to humanity , - this is too ethereal , perhaps too personal , too intimate , too sacred , to bear ...
... poets themselves . The processes of their art are con- sidered with unfailing zest by Pope and Wordsworth , by Coleridge ... poet's message to humanity , - this is too ethereal , perhaps too personal , too intimate , too sacred , to bear ...
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... poet has to say is in- extricably intertwined with the way in which he says it , and our appreciation of his ultimate message is en- hanced by our delight in his method of presenting it . In fact , our pleasure in his work is often due ...
... poet has to say is in- extricably intertwined with the way in which he says it , and our appreciation of his ultimate message is en- hanced by our delight in his method of presenting it . In fact , our pleasure in his work is often due ...
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... poet has wrought his marvels and also to feel deeply his charm and his power . The more we know , the better we shall understand the real nature of poetic inspiration . It is very natural , " so Reynolds declared in another of his ...
... poet has wrought his marvels and also to feel deeply his charm and his power . The more we know , the better we shall understand the real nature of poetic inspiration . It is very natural , " so Reynolds declared in another of his ...
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accepted alliteration anapestic artist asserted attention Austin Dobson ballade beauty blank verse breath Browning Browning's Byron's called charm chosen colliteration composed consonants dactylic declared delight double rimes Dryden effect employed English poetry English verse example feel final line fixed form foot four lines hearer heart heptameter heroic couplet hexameter iambic pentameter iambs iambus kiss language less light long syllables Longfellow's Lowell lyric lyrist mate melody meter metrical metrist Milton never nursery-rimes o'er once pair of rimes passage pause play poem poet poet's poetic license Pope prose quatrain refrain repetition rhythm rhythmic rime-scheme rondeau Rose Shakspere Shakspere's short syllable single rime sometimes song sonnet sound speech spondee stanza substitution sweet Swinburne technic Tennyson thee theme Théodore de Banville thou thought tion trimeter triolet trochaic trochee true tune UNIVERS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unrimed versification villanelle vowel vowel-sound wind words write