The Powers of PoetryOxford University Press, 1960 - 356 pages Includes critical essays on Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Byron, Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, A. E. Housman, W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, Dylan Thomas, Japanese haiku, sonnets, Lays of Ancient Rome, Horace, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Aeneid of Virgil, Metamorphoses of Ovid, Lucan, Elegy in a country churchyard, Hamlet, Robert Browning, Faust of Goethe, and The waste land. |
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Melody in poetry | 3 |
Rhythm in poetry | 11 |
Obscurity in poetry | 27 |
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