The Art of Reading PoetryI do not believe that poetry is mysterious or esoteric. It is for all who can read, who can call words, who have rhythm enough, by nature, so that a jazz orchestra sets feet and hands in motion. Likewise, this invitation is to all. But it is, especially, invitation to those regretfully convinced that poetry is not for them, and to those who think they prefer the unequivocating directness of prose. It is invitation to labor, and after labor, entrance upon pleasure "not to be chang'd by place or time," the peculiar pleasure which poetry is. - Invitation to reading. |
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... ANDREW MARVELL 20 39 30 40 Suggestions The Bermudas were discovered in 1515 , and almost at once took a prominent place in accounts of exploration and discovery . In 1653 , Marvell went to Eton as tutor for a nephew of Oliver Cromwell ...
... ANDREW MARVELL 20 39 30 40 Suggestions The Bermudas were discovered in 1515 , and almost at once took a prominent place in accounts of exploration and discovery . In 1653 , Marvell went to Eton as tutor for a nephew of Oliver Cromwell ...
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... ANDREW MARVELL MY GARDEN A garden is a lovesome thing , God wot ! Rose plot , Fringed pool , Ferned grot- The ... Marvell's poem is so much superior as to make serious comparison almost out of the question . Anyone who , after careful ...
... ANDREW MARVELL MY GARDEN A garden is a lovesome thing , God wot ! Rose plot , Fringed pool , Ferned grot- The ... Marvell's poem is so much superior as to make serious comparison almost out of the question . Anyone who , after careful ...
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... Andrew Marvell MACNEICE , LOUIS Snow Why , Now It Has Happened 470 301 256 387 77 77 295 447 196 302 300 316 256 333 291 294 243 Madrigal 300 MALLALIEU , H. B. " In Different Contexts Different Words " . 334 Marigold , The 297 MARVELL , ...
... Andrew Marvell MACNEICE , LOUIS Snow Why , Now It Has Happened 470 301 256 387 77 77 295 447 196 302 300 316 256 333 291 294 243 Madrigal 300 MALLALIEU , H. B. " In Different Contexts Different Words " . 334 Marigold , The 297 MARVELL , ...
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OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON ANDREW MARVELL ballad beauty beginning bird breath caesuras contrast conventional dark dead death detail Don John doth dream earth effect emotion English experience eyes fairy fear feeling garden hand hath heard heart heaven human idea imagery imagination John Donne JOHN KEATS John of Austria Keats kind King lady light lines live look meaning Milton mind Miss mood moon mother never night nightingale o'er once pattern phrase pleasure poem poet poet's prayer prose reader reading poetry rest rhythm rime rose seems Shakespeare ship sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep song sonnet soul sound spirit stars story stress Suggestions sweet syllables tears thee thine things Thomas Rymer thou thought Three Ravens tree turn verse voice WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words