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Page 562
... poets abandoned the elaborate rhetorical effects- " the fine frenzies " - common in medieval and Renaissance poetry . Instead , they sought to compress their thoughts , to waste no words , to create poetry that was as neatly trimmed as ...
... poets abandoned the elaborate rhetorical effects- " the fine frenzies " - common in medieval and Renaissance poetry . Instead , they sought to compress their thoughts , to waste no words , to create poetry that was as neatly trimmed as ...
Page 567
... poetry can be both read and studied . In the preceding pages we have surveyed the changing historical consensus about the nature and purpose of poetry . Each generation of poets has contrib- uted something to our understanding of the ...
... poetry can be both read and studied . In the preceding pages we have surveyed the changing historical consensus about the nature and purpose of poetry . Each generation of poets has contrib- uted something to our understanding of the ...
Page 568
... poetry . The ordinary prose writer neatly builds an argument using words the way a mason builds a house using bricks ; the poet is a craftsman who creates a fieldstone ... Poetic Diction THE MEANING OF WORDS Words are the building 568 POETRY.
... poetry . The ordinary prose writer neatly builds an argument using words the way a mason builds a house using bricks ; the poet is a craftsman who creates a fieldstone ... Poetic Diction THE MEANING OF WORDS Words are the building 568 POETRY.
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