English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats, Volume 2Cambridge U.P., 1967 - 324 páginas Every poet has a characteristic tone of voice, and his own rhythm. The author's chief interest is this 'sound poems make in the head', and his particular gift is to help us to hear what is going on in the individual poem, and to catch the poet's individuality. We also hear how each poet develops the forms his predecessors have used. In this way, we move from a consideration of single voices to the development of particular forms (like the couplet or blank verse) and the characteristics of whole periods. This book, then, has several uses. While verse as sound is its main concern, it can be read as an introductory history of English verse from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Since the author quotes generously, he also provides as he goes along an unhackneyed anthology in chronological order. In addition, he comments in detail on many of the poems, so that the book is a demonstration of the methods and uses of practical criticism. |
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... fair a dame ? Fair Eva , plac'd in perfect happiness , Lending her praise - notes to the liberal heavens Struck with the accents of arch - angels ' tunes , Wrought not more pleasure to her husband's thoughts Than this fair woman's words ...
... fair a dame ? Fair Eva , plac'd in perfect happiness , Lending her praise - notes to the liberal heavens Struck with the accents of arch - angels ' tunes , Wrought not more pleasure to her husband's thoughts Than this fair woman's words ...
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... fair ; She cast not back a pitying eye ; But left her lover in despair , To sigh , to languish , and to die . Ah , how can those fair eyes endure , To give the wounds they will not cure ! Great god of love , why hast thou made . A face ...
... fair ; She cast not back a pitying eye ; But left her lover in despair , To sigh , to languish , and to die . Ah , how can those fair eyes endure , To give the wounds they will not cure ! Great god of love , why hast thou made . A face ...
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... fair , fair have fallen , so dear To me , so arch - especial a spirit as heaves in Henry Purcell , An age is now since passed , since parted ; with the reversal Of the outward sentence low lays him , listed to a heresy here . Not mood ...
... fair , fair have fallen , so dear To me , so arch - especial a spirit as heaves in Henry Purcell , An age is now since passed , since parted ; with the reversal Of the outward sentence low lays him , listed to a heresy here . Not mood ...
Índice
Blank Verse | 25 |
The Seventeenth Century | 58 |
The Eighteenth Century | 117 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
A. E. Housman alliteration Balaam beauty Blake blank verse Boston Evening Transcript breath called Comus couplet dark dead death Donne Donne's doth dramatic dream Dryden earth eternal eyes fall feel flowers Gorboduc GUIDERIUS hath hear heart heaven Henry Purcell heroic couplet Hopkins human imagination inscape Keats kind King lady lines living look Lord lyric man's meaning melody Milton mind Muses nature nature's never night o'er passage play pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pre-Raphaelite Prufrock quotation reader rhetoric rhyme rhythm romantic Samian wine sense Shakespeare sing sleep smile song sonnet sort soul sound speech Spenser spirit spring sprung rhythm stanza stresses sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot taste thee theme thine things thou thought trees truth tune turn verb voice wind words Wordsworth writing Yeats