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Page 283
... expression of the emotion of a single singer accompanied by a lyre , and " choric " those VERSES that were the expression of a group and were sung by a CHORUS . This distinction has now disappeared , though the conception of the lyric ...
... expression of the emotion of a single singer accompanied by a lyre , and " choric " those VERSES that were the expression of a group and were sung by a CHORUS . This distinction has now disappeared , though the conception of the lyric ...
Page 356
... expression . Wordsworth in England and Emerson in America may be selected from many as giving typical expression to the pantheistic conception . The following LINES from Wordsworth's Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ...
... expression . Wordsworth in England and Emerson in America may be selected from many as giving typical expression to the pantheistic conception . The following LINES from Wordsworth's Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ...
Page 384
... expression to their most imaginative and intense perceptions of the world , themselves , and the relation of the two . No literary historian presumes to point out the beginnings of poetry , though the first conscious literary expression ...
... expression to their most imaginative and intense perceptions of the world , themselves , and the relation of the two . No literary historian presumes to point out the beginnings of poetry , though the first conscious literary expression ...
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ACCENT ACTION American APPRENTICESHIP NOVEL BALLAD Bible born called CHARACTER CLASSICAL COMEDY COMEDY OF MANNERS conventional COUPLET CRITICISM developed DRAMA early effect eighteenth century elements Elizabethan emotional England English Literature EPIC ESSAY example expression Ezra Pound FICTION French George Gerard Manley Hopkins GOTHIC NOVEL Greek Henry human I. A. Richards IAMBIC IAMBIC PENTAMETER idea James John Johnson language Latin lines Literary History LYRIC meaning medieval METAPHYSICAL POETRY metrical Middle English modern moral movement NARRATIVE nature nineteenth century NOVEL Outline of Literary PASTORAL pattern period person phrase PLAYS PLOT POEM poetic POETRY POETS popular PROSE reader realistic References RENAISSANCE reprinted rhetorical RHYME Rhyme Royal RHYTHM Robert ROMANCE ROMANTICISM SATIRE scenes sense Shakespeare SHORT STORY sometimes SONG SONNET speech STANZA stressed syllable STRUCTURE STYLE T. S. Eliot theater theory Thomas tion tradition TRAGEDY TROCHEE usually VERSE W. H. Auden William words writers written