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... poetry with a foot - rule and enjoy the jargon of Trochees and Anapaests and Pyrrhics , but which are quite irrelevant to the real appreciation of poetry . If you do not care to take my word for it that this is not so , may I suggest ...
... poetry with a foot - rule and enjoy the jargon of Trochees and Anapaests and Pyrrhics , but which are quite irrelevant to the real appreciation of poetry . If you do not care to take my word for it that this is not so , may I suggest ...
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... poetry lyric . One need not spend time in considering how real a distinction this label implies . It may mean no more than that in this type of poetry the poet speaks in the first person . It may represent , as I think it does , a more ...
... poetry lyric . One need not spend time in considering how real a distinction this label implies . It may mean no more than that in this type of poetry the poet speaks in the first person . It may represent , as I think it does , a more ...
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Contrasts and Comparisons Maurice Roy Ridley. Herbert of all English poets the most beautifully at ease in Sion . Whether one rates mystical poetry high or low depends no doubt on temperament , but at least the mystical poets ex- tended ...
Contrasts and Comparisons Maurice Roy Ridley. Herbert of all English poets the most beautifully at ease in Sion . Whether one rates mystical poetry high or low depends no doubt on temperament , but at least the mystical poets ex- tended ...
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