Critical Survey of Poetry: English language series, Volume 7Frank Northen Magill Vol. 8 includes guidelines to poetry explication. |
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... reader . One can find no better starting place for examining Stevenson's poetry than his envoy " To Any Reader " in A Child's Garden of Verses . Here , in eight rhymed couplets he encapsulates the sentiment of the volume . The reader is ...
... reader . One can find no better starting place for examining Stevenson's poetry than his envoy " To Any Reader " in A Child's Garden of Verses . Here , in eight rhymed couplets he encapsulates the sentiment of the volume . The reader is ...
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... reader a fellow poet , a “ camerado " who joins hands with him to traverse the poetic landscape . In " To You , " he sees the poet and reader as passing strangers who desire to speak to one another and urges that they do so . In " Song ...
... reader a fellow poet , a “ camerado " who joins hands with him to traverse the poetic landscape . In " To You , " he sees the poet and reader as passing strangers who desire to speak to one another and urges that they do so . In " Song ...
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... reader and poet . Readers often react to Wilbur's decorum in one of two ways : either they laud the fictive persona as a trustworthy human being , lacking deceit , or they hear him speaking from a plateau which is at best inaccessible ...
... reader and poet . Readers often react to Wilbur's decorum in one of two ways : either they laud the fictive persona as a trustworthy human being , lacking deceit , or they hear him speaking from a plateau which is at best inaccessible ...
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