Convention and Revolt in PoetryHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 346 pages |
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... verse and with apologies ! — prose ) ; while from a third angle it's a superb appropriation and translation into ... free children of God , and cry out : ' Here we are ! " " — is n't it then that we are most authentically original ? What ...
... verse and with apologies ! — prose ) ; while from a third angle it's a superb appropriation and translation into ... free children of God , and cry out : ' Here we are ! " " — is n't it then that we are most authentically original ? What ...
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... verse to bless myself withal , I still venture , most undog- matically , a few observations on the versifier's art ... free expres- sion . It is that contention which I should like to examine , and the one object of this chapter is to attempt ...
... verse to bless myself withal , I still venture , most undog- matically , a few observations on the versifier's art ... free expres- sion . It is that contention which I should like to examine , and the one object of this chapter is to attempt ...
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... free . They are merely taken up into and merged with another rhythmic movement . Let me make clearer what I mean . The movement of regular verse is a resultant , a resolution , of two rhythms , one of which , taken alone , tends towards ...
... free . They are merely taken up into and merged with another rhythmic movement . Let me make clearer what I mean . The movement of regular verse is a resultant , a resolution , of two rhythms , one of which , taken alone , tends towards ...
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... verse , that is not sheer doggerel , is built upon the harmony of both . Behind the endlessly weaving rhythms of the ... free verse would strike out , to anticipate for a moment , is the recurrent rhythm of the line . Regular verse is ...
... verse , that is not sheer doggerel , is built upon the harmony of both . Behind the endlessly weaving rhythms of the ... free verse would strike out , to anticipate for a moment , is the recurrent rhythm of the line . Regular verse is ...
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John Livingston Lowes. innumerable harmonies . Free verse is built on one alone . That , broadly speaking , is the funda- mental difference I have said that the rhythm of the sentence or the phrase plays through and about the rhythm of ...
John Livingston Lowes. innumerable harmonies . Free verse is built on one alone . That , broadly speaking , is the funda- mental difference I have said that the rhythm of the sentence or the phrase plays through and about the rhythm of ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.