The Art of Reading PoetryI do not believe that poetry is mysterious or esoteric. It is for all who can read, who can call words, who have rhythm enough, by nature, so that a jazz orchestra sets feet and hands in motion. Likewise, this invitation is to all. But it is, especially, invitation to those regretfully convinced that poetry is not for them, and to those who think they prefer the unequivocating directness of prose. It is invitation to labor, and after labor, entrance upon pleasure "not to be chang'd by place or time," the peculiar pleasure which poetry is. - Invitation to reading. |
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... imagination , appreciation of art is impossible . But with imagination , the third man saw all the second man saw , and more . His emotions tested and checked by his knowledge of the rules of the game , he felt because of the picture ...
... imagination , appreciation of art is impossible . But with imagination , the third man saw all the second man saw , and more . His emotions tested and checked by his knowledge of the rules of the game , he felt because of the picture ...
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... imagination as he read . But often when a comparison is basic to a poem it will be carried through in minute detail . ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold , And many goodly states and ...
... imagination as he read . But often when a comparison is basic to a poem it will be carried through in minute detail . ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold , And many goodly states and ...
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... imagination which bodies forth abstractions in a wealth of concrete detail to feed his own fears fat ; an imagination which can hardly help expressing itself in poetry . To get the full force of what he says , a reader must be willing ...
... imagination which bodies forth abstractions in a wealth of concrete detail to feed his own fears fat ; an imagination which can hardly help expressing itself in poetry . To get the full force of what he says , a reader must be willing ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON ANDREW MARVELL ballad beauty beginning bird breath caesuras contrast conventional dark dead death detail Don John doth dream earth effect emotion English experience eyes fairy fear feeling garden hand hath heard heart heaven human idea imagery imagination John Donne JOHN KEATS John of Austria Keats kind King lady light lines live look meaning Milton mind Miss mood moon mother never night nightingale o'er once pattern phrase pleasure poem poet poet's prayer prose reader reading poetry rest rhythm rime rose seems Shakespeare ship sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep song sonnet soul sound spirit stars story stress Suggestions sweet syllables tears thee thine things Thomas Rymer thou thought Three Ravens tree turn verse voice WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words