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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Page 124
... keep good humour still whate'er we lose ? And trust me , dear ! good - humour can prevail , When airs , and flights , and screams , and scolding fail ; Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight , but merit ...
... keep good humour still whate'er we lose ? And trust me , dear ! good - humour can prevail , When airs , and flights , and screams , and scolding fail ; Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight , but merit ...
Page 250
... keeps , and teases simple sight . Palate , the hutch of tasty lust , Desire not to be rinsed with wine : The can must ... keep of pride , What relish shall the censers send Along the sanctuary side ! O feel - of - primrose hands , O feet ...
... keeps , and teases simple sight . Palate , the hutch of tasty lust , Desire not to be rinsed with wine : The can must ... keep of pride , What relish shall the censers send Along the sanctuary side ! O feel - of - primrose hands , O feet ...
Page 251
... keeps and teases ' the nearest parallels are Shakespearian ( cabin'd , cribb'd , confin'd , bound in ) ; Shakespearian , too , is the doublet ' stir and keep ' of pride . In the contrast between this rough harsh energy , and the lyric ...
... keeps and teases ' the nearest parallels are Shakespearian ( cabin'd , cribb'd , confin'd , bound in ) ; Shakespearian , too , is the doublet ' stir and keep ' of pride . In the contrast between this rough harsh energy , and the lyric ...
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