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... give remarkably similar accounts of the poetic process . The Welsh scholar - poet Saunders Lewis puts it very neatly : The matter of poetry is not an unwritten poem in the poet's mind . It is not a completed experience for which the ...
... give remarkably similar accounts of the poetic process . The Welsh scholar - poet Saunders Lewis puts it very neatly : The matter of poetry is not an unwritten poem in the poet's mind . It is not a completed experience for which the ...
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Anne Ridler. three different rhythms all through ! I give the first stanza , marked first in iambic or rising rhythm , with three beats to the line — though of course the stress is sometimes reversed at the beginning of the line , which ...
Anne Ridler. three different rhythms all through ! I give the first stanza , marked first in iambic or rising rhythm , with three beats to the line — though of course the stress is sometimes reversed at the beginning of the line , which ...
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... give it six . Stresses indeed are but a clumsy guide to the rhythm . How is it possible to mark the difference in ... gives to one rhythm , does not destroy the equivocation ; and those who know Dowland's setting 50.
... give it six . Stresses indeed are but a clumsy guide to the rhythm . How is it possible to mark the difference in ... gives to one rhythm , does not destroy the equivocation ; and those who know Dowland's setting 50.
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