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... English words derived from Anglo - Saxon ( Old English ) have more force and flavor than their Latin equiv- alents . Kingly , one may feel , has more power than regal . One argu- ment for this view is that so many words of Old English ...
... English words derived from Anglo - Saxon ( Old English ) have more force and flavor than their Latin equiv- alents . Kingly , one may feel , has more power than regal . One argu- ment for this view is that so many words of Old English ...
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... English Renaissance , who wanted to find laws for English prosody like those available to poets in the classical languages . Difficulty arose in this attempt : Latin and Greek prosodists were dealing with a language not measured by ...
... English Renaissance , who wanted to find laws for English prosody like those available to poets in the classical languages . Difficulty arose in this attempt : Latin and Greek prosodists were dealing with a language not measured by ...
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... English - speaking poets who have used the form seem to feel strictly bound by it . " The sonnet , " in the view of ... English in form ? Which are Italian ? Which are variations on either form , or combinations of the two ? In which ...
... English - speaking poets who have used the form seem to feel strictly bound by it . " The sonnet , " in the view of ... English in form ? Which are Italian ? Which are variations on either form , or combinations of the two ? In which ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats