Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks Prentice-Hall, 1964 - 451 pages |
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Page xxxviii
... poet should avoid even the successful devices of his predecessors . Indeed , although Mr. Eliot and Mr. Pound have demonstrated unmistakably in our twentieth century the poetic values of drawing on knowledge of the literary past , there ...
... poet should avoid even the successful devices of his predecessors . Indeed , although Mr. Eliot and Mr. Pound have demonstrated unmistakably in our twentieth century the poetic values of drawing on knowledge of the literary past , there ...
Page xliii
... poet's command made possible a wide range of effects , from subtle variation to sharp contrast . It was a vital poetic resource . Insistence that the Latinate words of eighteenth - century poets frequently had more concrete force for ...
... poet's command made possible a wide range of effects , from subtle variation to sharp contrast . It was a vital poetic resource . Insistence that the Latinate words of eighteenth - century poets frequently had more concrete force for ...
Page xliv
... poet is and must be “ a man speaking to men " ; most would agree also that the proper concern of poetry is human experience and that poetry can hope to communicate only in terms of common experience . The modern poet who deals with his ...
... poet is and must be “ a man speaking to men " ; most would agree also that the proper concern of poetry is human experience and that poetry can hope to communicate only in terms of common experience . The modern poet who deals with his ...
Contents
Introduction | xvii |
Matthew Prior | xxiv |
To the Honorable Charles Montague Esq | 2 |
Copyright | |
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ADORATION auld auld lang syne bard beauty beneath bless breast breath charms Christopher Smart clouds Cowper death delight Dunciad e'er earth eighteenth-century ev'n ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame flowers frae golden reign grace hand hear heart heav'n honor hour human J. V. Cunningham John John Gay Jonathan Swift king lasses light Lord lyre maid Matthew Prior mind morn Muse nature Nature's ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace periphrasis Philip Larkin plain play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry pow'r praise pride rise round scene scorn sense shade shine sighs sing skelpin sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit Spring strain stream swain sweet Swift thee thou thought toil trembling Twas vale verse virtue voice walk wild William Cowper wind wing woods youth