An Oakham Overture to PoetryAn anthology of English poetry including works by William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, and Thomas Hardy. A discussion of the poet's style and review questions follow each selection. |
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... lost And found and lost again and again : and now , under conditions That seem unpropitious . But perhaps neither gain nor loss . For us , there is only the trying . The rest is not our business . " One of the unhappy necessities of ...
... lost And found and lost again and again : and now , under conditions That seem unpropitious . But perhaps neither gain nor loss . For us , there is only the trying . The rest is not our business . " One of the unhappy necessities of ...
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... lost And found and lost again and again . . . . Pope , on the other hand , clearly holds that the poet is he who coins a new phrase for an old thought : Something , whose truth convinced at sight we find , That gives us back the image ...
... lost And found and lost again and again . . . . Pope , on the other hand , clearly holds that the poet is he who coins a new phrase for an old thought : Something , whose truth convinced at sight we find , That gives us back the image ...
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... lost in vapour ; For this men write , speak , preach , and heroes kill , And bards burn what they call their ' midnight taper , ' To have , when the original is dust , A name , a wretched picture , and worse bust . What are the hopes of ...
... lost in vapour ; For this men write , speak , preach , and heroes kill , And bards burn what they call their ' midnight taper , ' To have , when the original is dust , A name , a wretched picture , and worse bust . What are the hopes of ...
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A. E. HOUSMAN anthology autumn ballad beauty birds blood blue boys church Colour-Sergeant couplet D. H. LAWRENCE Danny Deever dark dead death ding Discussion topics dream earth echo emotional English extracts eyes final stanza fire flowers G. K. Chesterton grass green Hardy hear heart Hopkins hour iambic J. K. Stephen Joan Hunter Dunn Keats Kipling knew leaves light look Lord mind moon morning never night o'er Oakham old School List PHILIP LARKIN Pobble poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope quiet reader reading rhyme rhythm road ROBERT HERRICK sense shade Shakespeare silence Sir Patrick Spens sleep smile sonnet soul sound spring stand sweet Tennyson thee theme things THOMAS HARDY thou thought thrush Timothy Winters turn verse voice vowel W. H. Davies W. R. Rodgers walk weeds wind words