Poetic Imagery Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 35Russell & Russell, 1924 - 231 páginas |
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... verse probably appears to- day more figurative than it really is , for many of the com- pounds which are fresh and figurative to us were no doubt already somewhat faded by constant use . Through the en- tire range of English literature ...
... verse probably appears to- day more figurative than it really is , for many of the com- pounds which are fresh and figurative to us were no doubt already somewhat faded by constant use . Through the en- tire range of English literature ...
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... verse , it is clear that verse will in fact comprise the larger and more fruitful part of our material . Poetry is a tropi cal zone of metaphor . There figures are thickest and most variegated . Our attention will , then , be given ...
... verse , it is clear that verse will in fact comprise the larger and more fruitful part of our material . Poetry is a tropi cal zone of metaphor . There figures are thickest and most variegated . Our attention will , then , be given ...
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... verse as a river swollen with rain rushes from the mountain ; or of him- self , that his genius wanders in quest of poetical decorations as the bee wanders to collect honey ; he in either case produces a simile ; the mind is impressed ...
... verse as a river swollen with rain rushes from the mountain ; or of him- self , that his genius wanders in quest of poetical decorations as the bee wanders to collect honey ; he in either case produces a simile ; the mind is impressed ...
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... verse but frequent in scientific writing . To criticize them is to refine the dis- tinction between the metaphorical comparison and poetic metaphor . They should be observed as the basis and nega- tive starting point of all ensuing ...
... verse but frequent in scientific writing . To criticize them is to refine the dis- tinction between the metaphorical comparison and poetic metaphor . They should be observed as the basis and nega- tive starting point of all ensuing ...
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... audacity . He adorns his verse with the pleasant sugges- tion of a rainbow , but reduces the imaginative value of the figure to the lowest possible degree . Consider another figure of the same type . This shepherd THE DECORATIVE IMAGE 39.
... audacity . He adorns his verse with the pleasant sugges- tion of a rainbow , but reduces the imaginative value of the figure to the lowest possible degree . Consider another figure of the same type . This shepherd THE DECORATIVE IMAGE 39.
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Poetic Imagery Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 35 Henry W. Wells Visualização integral - 1924 |
Poetic Imagery Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 35 Henry W. Wells Visualização de excertos - 1951 |
Poetic Imagery Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 35 Henry W. Wells Visualização de excertos - 1951 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
agery Antony Antony and Cleopatra appears beauty bethan citations cited Cleo Columbia University comedy conception contrast conventional Coriolanus death Decorative image Decorative imagery Decorative poetry Decorative verse Donne doth dramatic Drayton Elizabethan literature emblems emotional English Euphuistic expression Exuberant figure eyes Fairie Queene fancy fustian Greene hand heart heaven Henry Fifth idea ideal illustrate imaginative value incongruity ingenuity Intensive image King King Lear language Lear lines Love's Love's Labor's Lost Marlowe medieval meta metaphorical personification mind minor term Nash nature Othello painted passages pastoral pathetic fallacy Ph.D phor plays poem poet poetic imagery poetic metaphor Radical image relation Romeo and Juliet scene Shake Shakespere Shakespere's shows sonnet soul Spanish Tragedy Spenser spere spirit stars suggestion symbolism Tamb Tamburlaine Tempest thee Thomas Nash thou thought tion tive tragedy type of metaphor typical word
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Página 31 - If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Página 166 - Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers
Página 114 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war! — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,* Straining upon the start. The game's afoot ; Follow your spirit : and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry ! England ! and Saint George...
Página 174 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Página 180 - True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
Página 101 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Página 158 - She was a woman in her freshest age, Of wondrous beauty, and of bounty rare, With goodly grace and comely personage...
Página 173 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Página 188 - ... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other...
Página 174 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.