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... called , too vigorously opposite to the active romantic mode meaningfully to be called " pre - romantic " as it often is . While classical poetic usage is characterized by regularity of metre and richness of reference along with its ...
... called , too vigorously opposite to the active romantic mode meaningfully to be called " pre - romantic " as it often is . While classical poetic usage is characterized by regularity of metre and richness of reference along with its ...
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... called the vertical dimension , a poetic statement may be anything from the simplest com- ponent statement up to the total statement which is the poem itself . ( 3 ) There is also a third important dimension , which may be called the ...
... called the vertical dimension , a poetic statement may be anything from the simplest com- ponent statement up to the total statement which is the poem itself . ( 3 ) There is also a third important dimension , which may be called the ...
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... called prose rhythm if something must be called that . The no- tion has been well expressed by H. W. Fowler : " A sentence or a passage is rhythmical if , when said aloud , it falls naturally into groups of words each well fitted by its ...
... called prose rhythm if something must be called that . The no- tion has been well expressed by H. W. Fowler : " A sentence or a passage is rhythmical if , when said aloud , it falls naturally into groups of words each well fitted by its ...
Contents
Vowel and Consonant Patterns in Poetry 1953 David I Masson | 3 |
Some Parallels and Contrasts | 19 |
Some English Sonnets 1960 | 33 |
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