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The only requirements I can think of are an interest in the subject , sufficient
patience to follow an extended argument , and some acquaintance with , and
pleasure in , English poetry . Readers with an exclusively literary or exclusively
linguistic ...
The only requirements I can think of are an interest in the subject , sufficient
patience to follow an extended argument , and some acquaintance with , and
pleasure in , English poetry . Readers with an exclusively literary or exclusively
linguistic ...
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This has proved to be the type of metrical function most amenable to critical
discussion , since rhythm is thereby assimilated to a notion of poetry as an
expression of certain truths about the world beyond it with a subtlety or
forcefulness denied ...
This has proved to be the type of metrical function most amenable to critical
discussion , since rhythm is thereby assimilated to a notion of poetry as an
expression of certain truths about the world beyond it with a subtlety or
forcefulness denied ...
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2 – 3 , 41 - 4 Eliot , T . S . ( 1917 ) ' Reflections on vers libre ' in To Criticize the
Critic ( London , 1965 ) , 183 - 9 Eliot , T . S . ( 1942 ) The Music of Poetry (
Glasgow ) Epstein , Edmund L . and Hawkes , Terence ( 1959 ) Linguistics and
English ...
2 – 3 , 41 - 4 Eliot , T . S . ( 1917 ) ' Reflections on vers libre ' in To Criticize the
Critic ( London , 1965 ) , 183 - 9 Eliot , T . S . ( 1942 ) The Music of Poetry (
Glasgow ) Epstein , Edmund L . and Hawkes , Terence ( 1959 ) Linguistics and
English ...
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Contents
TRADITIONAL APPROACHES | 3 |
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES | 30 |
THE RHYTHMS OF ENGLISH SPEECH | 59 |
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