Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeHeritage Press, 1943 - 214 pages |
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Page 56
... idea , is poetry : music , without the idea , is simply music : the idea , without the music , is prose from its very definiteness . What was meant by the invective against " him who had no music in his soul " ? you no To sum up this ...
... idea , is poetry : music , without the idea , is simply music : the idea , without the music , is prose from its very definiteness . What was meant by the invective against " him who had no music in his soul " ? you no To sum up this ...
Page 82
... idea that , to merit in poetry , pro- lixity is indispensable - has , for some years past , been gradually dying out of the public mind , by mere dint of its own absurdity , we find it succeeded by a heresy too palpably false to be long ...
... idea that , to merit in poetry , pro- lixity is indispensable - has , for some years past , been gradually dying out of the public mind , by mere dint of its own absurdity , we find it succeeded by a heresy too palpably false to be long ...
Page 155
... idea , first , of curtailing , and , secondly , of defining the length of , a sequence , would thus at once have arisen . Here then is the line , or verse proper . * The principle of equality being constantly at the bottom of the whole ...
... idea , first , of curtailing , and , secondly , of defining the length of , a sequence , would thus at once have arisen . Here then is the line , or verse proper . * The principle of equality being constantly at the bottom of the whole ...
Contents
The Editors Commentary | 2 |
Spirits of the Dead | 14 |
The Happiest Day the Happiest Hour | 21 |
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Aaraaf accented Al Aaraaf ALESSANDRA amid anapaest angels Annabel Lee BALDAZZAR beauty bells beneath bird breath bright caesura CASTIGLIONE catalectic chamber door dactyl death dream dwell Earth Edgar Allan Poe effect equality eternal eyes fair fancy feel feet flowers foot Frances Sargent Osgood Greek happy hast hath heart Heaven hexameter hope hour iambus idea Israfel JACINTA lake LALAGE Ligeia light lines lone long syllable maiden melancholy melody moon never Nevermore night o'er odors passion pleasure Poe's Poems of Edgar poet poetical poetry POLITIAN Prosodies Raven rhyme rhythm Sarah Elmira Royster scansion shadow short syllables skies sleep smile soul sound speak spirit spondee stanza star strange sweet Tamerlane tears thee thine things thou art thought thro throne tion tone trochaic trochee true truth Ulalume verse versification voice wild wind wing word young