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... lyric element is the animating breath of all literature . This is not saying that the lyrical form is the greatest kind of poetry . It is saying , I repeat , that no poetry can be great without the lyric element . The old teaching was ...
... lyric element is the animating breath of all literature . This is not saying that the lyrical form is the greatest kind of poetry . It is saying , I repeat , that no poetry can be great without the lyric element . The old teaching was ...
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... lyric had reigned supreme . Such narratives as were then approximately popular were romanticized writing brought into being by The Idylls of the King and by the Pre - Raphaelite ballads . It was the spectacle of Shakespeare as well as ...
... lyric had reigned supreme . Such narratives as were then approximately popular were romanticized writing brought into being by The Idylls of the King and by the Pre - Raphaelite ballads . It was the spectacle of Shakespeare as well as ...
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... lyric is epigrammatic : Ah , what avails the scepter'd race , Ah , what the form divine ! What every virtue , every grace ! Rose Aylmer , all were thine . Rose Aylmer , whom these wakeful eyes May weep , but never see , A night of ...
... lyric is epigrammatic : Ah , what avails the scepter'd race , Ah , what the form divine ! What every virtue , every grace ! Rose Aylmer , all were thine . Rose Aylmer , whom these wakeful eyes May weep , but never see , A night of ...
Contents
WHAT IS POETRY? | 3 |
POETRY THE FIRST OF OUR ARTS | 24 |
THE DEBT TO WORDSWORTH | 39 |
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