The Pursuit of Poetry: A Guide to Its Understanding and Appreciation with an Explanation of Its Forms and a Dictionary of Poetic Terms |
Contents
Of English Verse | 9 |
The Definition of Poetry | 15 |
A Dictionary of Devices a Handbook of Poetic | 139 |
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accented alliteration AMPHIBRACH au pair girl ballade beauty begins blank verse breath called century composed conceit consonants couplet critic Curly-locks dactylic dark death delight doth double dactylic earth Echo Eliot Elizabethan emotion English poetry epic example eye rhymes eyes Ezra Pound fair feet flowers free verse Greek heart heaven heroic couplet iambic iambic pentameter John Keats King language light verse lines live Lord lyric meaning metaphor meter METONOMY metrical metrical feet modern poetry Muse never night pair girl passion pentameter phrase poem poet poet's poetic diction Pope prose quatrain reader refrain rhyme rhythm Robert Frost rondeau sense sestet Sestina Shakespeare Shepherd sing sometimes song sonnet sound speech stanza sweet syllables Tennyson thee things thou thought tion translation tree triolet unrhymed Villanelle vowels W. S. Gilbert William wind words Wordsworth write wrote