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... prose full of allusions , puns , and deliberate ambiguities . ( It should be noted that our word rhythm comes from the Greek rhein : to flow - so that rhythmic contrasts are to be understood as contrasts of flow . ) The prose style of ...
... prose full of allusions , puns , and deliberate ambiguities . ( It should be noted that our word rhythm comes from the Greek rhein : to flow - so that rhythmic contrasts are to be understood as contrasts of flow . ) The prose style of ...
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... prose of one of our best poets only to find that his prose , his critical faculties , and his percep- tions of the use of poetry are all as finely tuned as his impeccable ear for the line in speech . " There is nothing so useful in art ...
... prose of one of our best poets only to find that his prose , his critical faculties , and his percep- tions of the use of poetry are all as finely tuned as his impeccable ear for the line in speech . " There is nothing so useful in art ...
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... prose . Prosody , which is the science of versification , has for its subject the mate- rials of poetry and is concerned almost entirely with the laws of metre , or rhythm in the narrowest sense . " He then observes that of course in ...
... prose . Prosody , which is the science of versification , has for its subject the mate- rials of poetry and is concerned almost entirely with the laws of metre , or rhythm in the narrowest sense . " He then observes that of course in ...
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Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
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