Classic Writings on PoetryWilliam Harmon Columbia University Press, 13.04.2005 - 560 Seiten The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Poet" |
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... diction and rhetoric. Seldom has a poem sounded remotely like real speech, but seldom has a poet failed to claim that he or she writes the way normal people talk. Everybody professes an earnest preference for the simple and direct, but ...
... diction. Eighteenth-century satirists seem to have experimented with maximal redundancy, the prize going to one of Pope's couplets: “Or alom-stypticks with contracting pow'r / Shrink his thin essence like a rivelled flow'r,” which says ...
... diction, sound, and spectacle; he applies these concepts to patterns that can be called tragic and comic. (Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose has to do with a fanciful account of the last existing copy of Aristotle's treatise on comedy ...
... diction of the earlier satyric form for the stately manner of Tragedy. The iambic measure then replaced the trochaic tetrameter, which was originally employed when the poetry was of the satyric order, and had greater affinities with ...
... Diction, for these are the media of imitation. By “Diction” I mean the mere metrical arrangement of the words: as for “Song,” it is a term whose sense every one understands. Again, Tragedy is the imitation of an action; and an action ...
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3 Ars Poetica by Horace | 63 |
4 Germania excerpt by Publius Cornelius Tacitus | 75 |
5 On the Sublime excerpt by Longinus? | 79 |
6 Skáldskaparmál by Snorri Sturluson | 107 |
7 The Defence of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney | 115 |
8 Of Education excerpt by John Milton | 153 |
18 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers excerpt by George Gordon Lord Byron | 331 |
19 A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley | 349 |
20 The Poet by William Cullen Bryant | 375 |
21 Poems by John Keats | 379 |
22 The Poet excerpt by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 385 |
23 Aurora Leigh Fifth Book excerpt by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 405 |
24 Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 423 |
25 The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe | 429 |
10 An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope | 207 |
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot by Alexander Pope | 229 |
11 Lives of the Poets excerpts by Samuel Johnson | 243 |
12 The Progress of Poesy by Thomas Gray | 269 |
13 Observations Prefixed to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth | 277 |
14 Biographia Literaria Chapter XIV by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 297 |
15 The State of Modern Poetry excerpt by Francis Jeffrey | 305 |
16 On Poetry in General excerpt by William Hazlitt | 313 |
17 The Four Ages of Poetry excerpt by Thomas Love Peacock | 317 |
26 Preface to Leaves of Grass first edition 1855 excerpt by Walt Whitman | 443 |
27 The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold | 461 |
28 Poems by Emily Dickinson | 485 |
29 Proofs of Holy Writ by Rudyard Kipling | 493 |
30 A Retrospect by Ezra Pound | 507 |
31 The Possibility of a Poetic Drama by T S Eliot | 519 |
32 Poetic Reality and Critical Unreality by Laura Riding Jackson
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