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... feeling to convey . Otherwise it is the basest artificiality . Measured rhythm furnishes enrichment to the expression of mood or feeling , but when , under ordinary , calm circumstances , one attempts to explain , describe , or discuss ...
... feeling to convey . Otherwise it is the basest artificiality . Measured rhythm furnishes enrichment to the expression of mood or feeling , but when , under ordinary , calm circumstances , one attempts to explain , describe , or discuss ...
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... feelings when well expressed tend to shape them- selves . The feeling of grief may take the form of an elegy or lament , which formally depicts the sorrow of the writer ; or it may purpose solely to pour itself out in mournful melody ...
... feelings when well expressed tend to shape them- selves . The feeling of grief may take the form of an elegy or lament , which formally depicts the sorrow of the writer ; or it may purpose solely to pour itself out in mournful melody ...
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James Harry Smith. A perfect antithesis to lyric poetry , which proceeds from a feeling of love or sympathy for something , it has its origin in a feeling of annoyance or disgust . Of George III's funeral Byron writes , Of all The fools ...
James Harry Smith. A perfect antithesis to lyric poetry , which proceeds from a feeling of love or sympathy for something , it has its origin in a feeling of annoyance or disgust . Of George III's funeral Byron writes , Of all The fools ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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