Types of English PoetryRudolf Kirk, Clara Marburg Kirk |
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... poetry . It is more especially for those who not only enjoy reading poetry , but who also are pleased by questions as to the nature and quality of their enjoyment . Such questions have to do more or less directly with the meaning of ...
... poetry . It is more especially for those who not only enjoy reading poetry , but who also are pleased by questions as to the nature and quality of their enjoyment . Such questions have to do more or less directly with the meaning of ...
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... poetry , to be capable of fulfilling such high destinies , must be poetry of a high order of excellence , " able to interpret life for us , to console us , and to sustain us . The strength and joy drawn from “ the classics ” —a term ...
... poetry , to be capable of fulfilling such high destinies , must be poetry of a high order of excellence , " able to interpret life for us , to console us , and to sustain us . The strength and joy drawn from “ the classics ” —a term ...
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... poetry to hear it , and see it , and share in its mood , we ourselves learn indirectly the meaning of these basic emotions . Like the poet , we feel a new inner harmony which makes us at once more detached from the world about us and ...
... poetry to hear it , and see it , and share in its mood , we ourselves learn indirectly the meaning of these basic emotions . Like the poet , we feel a new inner harmony which makes us at once more detached from the world about us and ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE POETRY | 38 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 42 |
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