Convention and Revolt in PoetryHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 346 páginas |
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... concern us here . There is , to be sure , keen zest in retracing the vestiges of primitive poetry , and in reconstruct- ing , ex pede Herculem , primitive poetry itself . To build up Hercules from his foot , when every- thing above the ...
... concern us here . There is , to be sure , keen zest in retracing the vestiges of primitive poetry , and in reconstruct- ing , ex pede Herculem , primitive poetry itself . To build up Hercules from his foot , when every- thing above the ...
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... concerned with is the com- munication of what is seen , felt , heard , tasted , smelled . And once more the medium is speech . But words cannot give the things in themselves . Color can give color , line line , but the relation between ...
... concerned with is the com- munication of what is seen , felt , heard , tasted , smelled . And once more the medium is speech . But words cannot give the things in themselves . Color can give color , line line , but the relation between ...
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... concerned , beyond the " wine- dark sea " of Homer . We are shut up , then , in our expression of the actual world as it impinges upon us , to indirec- tions . " What does it look like , sound like , feel like , taste like , smell like ...
... concerned , beyond the " wine- dark sea " of Homer . We are shut up , then , in our expression of the actual world as it impinges upon us , to indirec- tions . " What does it look like , sound like , feel like , taste like , smell like ...
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... concern myself . In one sense conventions are not born at all . For what- ever their ancestry , they never come into being as conventions . It is only when they are taken up through acceptance into usage that they acquire ...
... concern myself . In one sense conventions are not born at all . For what- ever their ancestry , they never come into being as conventions . It is only when they are taken up through acceptance into usage that they acquire ...
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... the Blest and that is all . The conventions are different ; their behav- ior is the same . - - What we are concerned with for the moment , please remember , is the freedom with which conventions form THE WAYS OF CONVENTIONS 59.
... the Blest and that is all . The conventions are different ; their behav- ior is the same . - - What we are concerned with for the moment , please remember , is the freedom with which conventions form THE WAYS OF CONVENTIONS 59.
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Términos y frases comunes
accept Æneid æsthetic artist balade beauty Beowulf cadences Canterbury Tales Chaucer color common conventions courtly love daisy Deschamps diction of poetry Dido emotion English poetry expression exquisite eyes fact familiar feel flower Francis Fawkes free verse freedom fresh genius give Goethe hand happens heart human illusion imaginative Imagist impressions inevitable insurgent Keats lady language less lover mean mediæval medium ment merely metre metrical Middle Ages modern movement nature never once originality phrase poem poet poet's poetic polyphonic precisely revolt rhyme rhythm rhythmic Richard Aldington Roman de Thèbes romances rose sense Shakespeare sonnet soul sound speak speech spirit stanza strophic stuff suspension of disbelief sweet thee themes things thou thought tion to-day touch tradition tree true truth usage vers libre vivid wind words Wordsworth write wrote
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Página 270 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Página 96 - THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Página 12 - I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Página 189 - THE gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i
Página 188 - Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth— rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.
Página 180 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Página 251 - Or the nard in the fire? Or have tasted the bag of the bee? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
Página 27 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 114 - WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Página 340 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.