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... followed by a heavily stressed syllable , as intervene . Anapestic meter gives a bright , lilting effect of vigor and speed . The following stanza from Swinburne's Hertha is , except for one foot , in anapestic meter : I am that which ...
... followed by a heavily stressed syllable , as intervene . Anapestic meter gives a bright , lilting effect of vigor and speed . The following stanza from Swinburne's Hertha is , except for one foot , in anapestic meter : I am that which ...
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... followed stroke to secure the fullest dramatic effect . Greek drama , then , in general does not tell a story ; it presents characters at the culminating moment of the story and explores thoroughly their emotions , their reasons for ...
... followed stroke to secure the fullest dramatic effect . Greek drama , then , in general does not tell a story ; it presents characters at the culminating moment of the story and explores thoroughly their emotions , their reasons for ...
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... followed by volleys of silvery laughter . That is the Comic Spirit . D Romantic drama came in the nineteenth century as a violent reaction from neo - classic drama . In general it followed the formulæ of Elizabethan drama . Romantic ...
... followed by volleys of silvery laughter . That is the Comic Spirit . D Romantic drama came in the nineteenth century as a violent reaction from neo - classic drama . In general it followed the formulæ of Elizabethan drama . Romantic ...
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action Æschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |