How to Enjoy PoetrySurveys narrative and lyrical poetry in the English language and discusses the craft of the poet. |
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ballad beauty blank verse Bleaney celebrating century CHANGING FACE chapter Charles Causley composed contemporary course dance death Donne Dylan Dylan Thomas emotion employed English language English poetry English Verse example experience eyes Faber FACE OF POETRY feeling free verse guage heart iambic pentameter imagery images imagination John Keats kind lines literary literature lyrical poem lyrical poetry meaning Melvyn Bragg metaphor metre metrical modern move narrative nature night original Oxford Book pattern perhaps Philip Larkin pleasure poet POET'S CRAFT poetic POETRY POETRY POETRY Shakespeare Pope produced prose prosody quatrain reader reading rhyming forms rhythms Romantics satire sense sestet simple Sir Patrick Spens song sonnet sound speech stanza forms stress style syllables syntax Tennyson tetrameter thee Thom Gunn Thomas thou tion tive traditional twentieth twentieth-century verbal verse forms Victorians to 1960 W. H. Auden Wilfred Owen wish words Wordsworth writing written wrote