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... Wordsworth owed an immeasurable debt to his wife and to his sister Dorothy . Mrs. Wordsworth composed the third and fourth lines of the last stanza of " I Wandered Lonely . " We quote the account from Dorothy's journal of the inci- dent ...
... Wordsworth owed an immeasurable debt to his wife and to his sister Dorothy . Mrs. Wordsworth composed the third and fourth lines of the last stanza of " I Wandered Lonely . " We quote the account from Dorothy's journal of the inci- dent ...
Page 302
... Wordsworth's " Scorn Not the Sonnet " is less critical than historical . Dante , Petrarch , and Tasso were the supreme poets of Italy . Camöens , author of the epic The Lusiads , was the greatest poet of Portugal . Shake- speare ...
... Wordsworth's " Scorn Not the Sonnet " is less critical than historical . Dante , Petrarch , and Tasso were the supreme poets of Italy . Camöens , author of the epic The Lusiads , was the greatest poet of Portugal . Shake- speare ...
Page 568
... Wordsworth : " The Reverie of Poor Susan " and Bryant : " Green River " are poems in which , perhaps , the triple rhythm should not have been employed . With Longfellow's use of the dactylic hexameter in Evangeline and The Courtship of ...
... Wordsworth : " The Reverie of Poor Susan " and Bryant : " Green River " are poems in which , perhaps , the triple rhythm should not have been employed . With Longfellow's use of the dactylic hexameter in Evangeline and The Courtship of ...
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accented syllables Alfred Edward Housman alliteration anapestic ballad beauty birds blank verse Burns Cæsar's called Camelot century chapter couplet dactylic Danny Deever dark dead death dreams earth Edwin Arlington Robinson elegy English poetry eyes feet flowers following poem free verse glory gone gray hath hear heart heaven hills Hymn iambic pentameter John Keats Lady of Shalott land light lines living look Lord lyric melody meter metrical Milton moon never night o'er poet poetic prose quatrain quote reader rhythm rime Ring Robert Robert Frost romance rose Shakespeare silent sing sleep song sonnet soul sound stanza stars sung sweet Tennyson thee theme thine things thou thought trees trochaic wandering wave weary White Man's burden Whitman wild William William Butler Yeats wind words Wordsworth written wrote