English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats, Volume 2Cambridge U.P., 1967 - 324 pages Every poet has a characteristic tone of voice, and his own rhythm. The author's chief interest is this 'sound poems make in the head', and his particular gift is to help us to hear what is going on in the individual poem, and to catch the poet's individuality. We also hear how each poet develops the forms his predecessors have used. In this way, we move from a consideration of single voices to the development of particular forms (like the couplet or blank verse) and the characteristics of whole periods. This book, then, has several uses. While verse as sound is its main concern, it can be read as an introductory history of English verse from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Since the author quotes generously, he also provides as he goes along an unhackneyed anthology in chronological order. In addition, he comments in detail on many of the poems, so that the book is a demonstration of the methods and uses of practical criticism. |
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... hear him now ; his plausive words He scatter'd not in ears , but grafted them , To grow there and to bear , — ' Let me not live , ' — Thus his good melancholy oft began On the catastrophe and heel of pastime , When it was out , - ' Let ...
... hear him now ; his plausive words He scatter'd not in ears , but grafted them , To grow there and to bear , — ' Let me not live , ' — Thus his good melancholy oft began On the catastrophe and heel of pastime , When it was out , - ' Let ...
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... hear in the couplet Behold , I come , sent from the Stygian sound , As a dire vapour that had cleft the ground ... and we can hear , too , how monosyllables are exploited , What sleep is this doth seize thee so like death ... a device ...
... hear in the couplet Behold , I come , sent from the Stygian sound , As a dire vapour that had cleft the ground ... and we can hear , too , how monosyllables are exploited , What sleep is this doth seize thee so like death ... a device ...
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T. R. Barnes. I hear thy voice , I hear thy loud lament , From bleak Helvetia's icy caverns sent— I hear thy groans upon her blood - stained streams ! but it also contains this remark , a kind of final comment on one aspect of all ...
T. R. Barnes. I hear thy voice , I hear thy loud lament , From bleak Helvetia's icy caverns sent— I hear thy groans upon her blood - stained streams ! but it also contains this remark , a kind of final comment on one aspect of all ...
Contents
Blank Verse | 25 |
The Seventeenth Century | 58 |
The Eighteenth Century | 117 |
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A. E. Housman alliteration Balaam beauty Blake blank verse Boston Evening Transcript breath called Comus couplet dark dead death Donne Donne's doth dramatic dream Dryden earth eternal eyes fall feel flowers Gorboduc GUIDERIUS hath hear heart heaven Henry Purcell heroic couplet Hopkins human imagination inscape Keats kind King lady lines living look Lord lyric man's meaning melody Milton mind Muses nature nature's never night o'er passage play pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pre-Raphaelite Prufrock quotation reader rhetoric rhyme rhythm romantic Samian wine sense Shakespeare sing sleep smile song sonnet sort soul sound speech Spenser spirit spring sprung rhythm stanza stresses sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot taste thee theme thine things thou thought trees truth tune turn verb voice wind words Wordsworth writing Yeats