A Handbook of Poetics for Students of English VerseGinn, 1913 - 250 páginas |
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... marked moral purpose , something foreign to early epic . But in the way of pure narrative for the narrative's sake , nothing can be better than those of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales which treat sacred legend : e.g. , the exquisite ...
... marked moral purpose , something foreign to early epic . But in the way of pure narrative for the narrative's sake , nothing can be better than those of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales which treat sacred legend : e.g. , the exquisite ...
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... marked off , love , reflective , and other lyrics . The lower forms of this sort are lines in an album , a short note in verse , asking pardon for some blunder or omission , hits at passing folly , a valentine , and the like . Higher ...
... marked off , love , reflective , and other lyrics . The lower forms of this sort are lines in an album , a short note in verse , asking pardon for some blunder or omission , hits at passing folly , a valentine , and the like . Higher ...
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... marked charac- ter . The action and the characters are the two great elements of the drama . In the best plays there must be a thorough blending of the two ; the action must at once shape and be shaped by the characters that take part ...
... marked charac- ter . The action and the characters are the two great elements of the drama . In the best plays there must be a thorough blending of the two ; the action must at once shape and be shaped by the characters that take part ...
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Francis Barton Gummere. sprang , there was a rude but marked distinction on the above principle : where the action took precedence , the play was called a Mystery or a Miracle ; when the char- acters attracted the main interest , the ...
Francis Barton Gummere. sprang , there was a rude but marked distinction on the above principle : where the action took precedence , the play was called a Mystery or a Miracle ; when the char- acters attracted the main interest , the ...
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... marked their steps by chanted words , —a syllable for each step : the words were rude enough at first , but little by little gained in precision and meaning ( cf. p . 9 ) . Two steps , right and left , made a unit ; for with the third ...
... marked their steps by chanted words , —a syllable for each step : the words were rude enough at first , but little by little gained in precision and meaning ( cf. p . 9 ) . Two steps , right and left , made a unit ; for with the third ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accented syllables action Alexandrine allegory alliteration anapestic Anglo-Saxon ballad beginning-rime Beowulf blank verse Byron cæsura called Century character Chaucer classic metres combined comedy common dactylic dance drama early effect end-rime English verse epic epic poetry example famous feminine foot four accents French Germanic Greek half-verse Hamlet harmony heavy syllables heroic verse hexameter hounds of spring hovering accent iamb iambic iambic movement imitated Keats King later Latin Layamon legend license light syllables lines literature long syllable Lost Love's Labour's Lost lyric poetry measure metaphor metre metrical scheme Milton moral nature play poem poet poetical popular prose quantity regular rhetorical rhythm rhythmic pause rimed couplets rimeless rule run-on says Septenary Shak Shakspere Shakspere's short silent simile sing slurring song sonnet sounds stanza stress stress-syllable style Surrey Tennyson thee thou tion tone tragedy trochaic trochee trope unaccented syllables verse-accent vowel word-accent words
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Página 120 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
Página 118 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 239 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Página 239 - WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow...
Página 223 - If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear By external swelling : but she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace.
Página 112 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 131 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Página 158 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Página 130 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Página 200 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.