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... verse , which Brander Matthews borrowed from Cowper for his American Familiar Verse , is the least inadequate English name , but it too strongly suggests informality . Gentle verse , suggested by Carolyn Wells , and patrician rhymes ...
... verse , which Brander Matthews borrowed from Cowper for his American Familiar Verse , is the least inadequate English name , but it too strongly suggests informality . Gentle verse , suggested by Carolyn Wells , and patrician rhymes ...
Page 393
... Verse , “ For the artist in verse there is no law ; the perception and love of beauty constitute the whole outfit . " Much of the objection to free verse is due solely to its unconventional appearance on the printed page . The free ...
... Verse , “ For the artist in verse there is no law ; the perception and love of beauty constitute the whole outfit . " Much of the objection to free verse is due solely to its unconventional appearance on the printed page . The free ...
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... VERSE , EPIGRAMS , ETC. Suggestive discussions of vers de société will be found in the following anthologies : —Locker - Lampson : Lyra Elegantiarum ; Brander Matthews : American Familiar Verse ; Carolyn Wells : A Vers de Société ...
... VERSE , EPIGRAMS , ETC. Suggestive discussions of vers de société will be found in the following anthologies : —Locker - Lampson : Lyra Elegantiarum ; Brander Matthews : American Familiar Verse ; Carolyn Wells : A Vers de Société ...
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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