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... line patterns , so lines are combined into stanzaic patterns . Though not usually written as separate stanzas , lines are often paired into couplets , the two lines rhyming . The common couplet in English verse is iambic pentameter . In ...
... line patterns , so lines are combined into stanzaic patterns . Though not usually written as separate stanzas , lines are often paired into couplets , the two lines rhyming . The common couplet in English verse is iambic pentameter . In ...
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... lines , and a sestet , a group of six lines , without , however , following the Italian practice of keep- ing the thought in the octave and sestet separate . In Milton's sonnets the thought unrolls itself throughout the entire fourteen ...
... lines , and a sestet , a group of six lines , without , however , following the Italian practice of keep- ing the thought in the octave and sestet separate . In Milton's sonnets the thought unrolls itself throughout the entire fourteen ...
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... lines , if we have tact and can use them , are enough even of themselves to keep clear and sound our judgments about poetry , to save us from fallacious estimates of it , to conduct us to a real estimate . As a matter of fact these few ...
... lines , if we have tact and can use them , are enough even of themselves to keep clear and sound our judgments about poetry , to save us from fallacious estimates of it , to conduct us to a real estimate . As a matter of fact these few ...
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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 |