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... strength / length " become a commonplace : To mend one Fault , he makes a hundred more : A verse was weak , you turn ... strength of lines , weight of words , and closeness of expressions .. ..3 By striving to be short they grow Obscure ...
... strength / length " become a commonplace : To mend one Fault , he makes a hundred more : A verse was weak , you turn ... strength of lines , weight of words , and closeness of expressions .. ..3 By striving to be short they grow Obscure ...
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... Strength " , in other words , is close and compact syntax , neither more nor less . And it is too a virtue of authentic syntax , not of the pseudo- syntax that is music . For a verse is strong only if it has " strong sense " . Let ...
... Strength " , in other words , is close and compact syntax , neither more nor less . And it is too a virtue of authentic syntax , not of the pseudo- syntax that is music . For a verse is strong only if it has " strong sense " . Let ...
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... strength " and " ease " . Yet the merest glance at any of Landor's heroic poems will show that he achieved close syntax indeed , but at an exorbitant cost . For his is not after all the strength of Denham , of Pope , of Crabbe , but the ...
... strength " and " ease " . Yet the merest glance at any of Landor's heroic poems will show that he achieved close syntax indeed , but at an exorbitant cost . For his is not after all the strength of Denham , of Pope , of Crabbe , but the ...
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abstract argument articulation authentic syntax Berkeley Chinese Coleridge common concrete context copula criticism dream effect Eliot Elizabeth Sewell energy English Ernest Fenollosa essay example experience extensive manifold Ezra Pound fact feeling fiduciary symbols form of thought Frye function grammar grammarian H. M. McLuhan Hence Hofmannsthal Hugh Kenner Hulme's human idea images instance Kenner Kenyon Review kind language Leavis lines literature logic logician meaning metaphor metre mind modern poetry movement narrative nature Northrop Frye nouns objective passage pattern philosophy poem poet poet's poetic syntax Pope post-symbolist Prelude propositional prose pseudo-syntax reader rhetoric rhyme rhythm Sackville seems sense sentence Shakespeare Sidney's significant Sir Herbert Read sleep sort speak St.-John Perse stanza structure Susanne Langer symbolist syntactical forms syntax in poetry T. E. Hulme theory things tion transitive verb true Valéry verbal verbs verse W. R. Rodgers whole words Wordsworth writing Yeats