The World's Best Poetry ...John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard J. D. Morris, 1904 - English poetry |
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Page ix
... English liter- ature , " said a noted professor not long ago , not be taught " ; and certain it is that even with the most advanced analytical text - book one cannot get a final satisfaction from " doing a sum " in English literature as ...
... English liter- ature , " said a noted professor not long ago , not be taught " ; and certain it is that even with the most advanced analytical text - book one cannot get a final satisfaction from " doing a sum " in English literature as ...
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... English Rhythms " ; Sted- " The Nature and Elements of Poetry . " Excellent as these are , he may lament when he has read them that he has found the history of poetic forms , and the technique of poetic method , where man : he hoped to ...
... English Rhythms " ; Sted- " The Nature and Elements of Poetry . " Excellent as these are , he may lament when he has read them that he has found the history of poetic forms , and the technique of poetic method , where man : he hoped to ...
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... English Poets " ; Emerson's Essays : " The Poet " and " Poetry and Imagination " ; Wordsworth's In- troduction to the " Lyrical Ballads " ; Poe's strik- ing little essays on the art of poetry ; Aristotle's " Rhetoric " ; Macaulay's ...
... English Poets " ; Emerson's Essays : " The Poet " and " Poetry and Imagination " ; Wordsworth's In- troduction to the " Lyrical Ballads " ; Poe's strik- ing little essays on the art of poetry ; Aristotle's " Rhetoric " ; Macaulay's ...
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... English of Chaucer's day , he could quickly train his ear to be independent of the handbooks on versification , by reading aloud , or listening as one read aloud , the " Odyssey " or the " Beowulf , ” or the " Nibelungen Lied " or the ...
... English of Chaucer's day , he could quickly train his ear to be independent of the handbooks on versification , by reading aloud , or listening as one read aloud , the " Odyssey " or the " Beowulf , ” or the " Nibelungen Lied " or the ...
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... English minds and manners may be found , Shall be constrained to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year most part deformed With dripping rains , or withered by a frost , I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies , And ...
... English minds and manners may be found , Shall be constrained to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year most part deformed With dripping rains , or withered by a frost , I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies , And ...
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