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... instance , a passage from an early and unpublished poem , The Death of St Narcissus ' ( unpublished in Eliot's lifetime , that is ) , appears almost verbatim in The Waste Land ' ; and the form of that poem itself foreshadows the five ...
... instance , a passage from an early and unpublished poem , The Death of St Narcissus ' ( unpublished in Eliot's lifetime , that is ) , appears almost verbatim in The Waste Land ' ; and the form of that poem itself foreshadows the five ...
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... instance where he was looking for a word ' of two syllables , containing P or F and ending in mute E ' ; it seems to have been almost incidental that this word had to be a synonym for brisure , and be a common word , not rare . ' What ...
... instance where he was looking for a word ' of two syllables , containing P or F and ending in mute E ' ; it seems to have been almost incidental that this word had to be a synonym for brisure , and be a common word , not rare . ' What ...
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... instance with the line ' Their holy vigil ' , which he accents as ' Théir holy / vígil — giving it the label of ' an adonic ' ( in classical terminology ) , instead of the more natural ' Their hóly vígil ' . Coleridge's description of ...
... instance with the line ' Their holy vigil ' , which he accents as ' Théir holy / vígil — giving it the label of ' an adonic ' ( in classical terminology ) , instead of the more natural ' Their hóly vígil ' . Coleridge's description of ...
Common terms and phrases
accents áll but toys ambiguity ANNE RIDLER béar beats Benlowes Burnt Norton caesura Chipping Campden Christ Christian Cleveland Coleridge Collected Poems Crashaw Dante dárts Déath divine Dry Salvages earth East Coker Eliot Eliot's essay emotion ENGLISH POETRY English verse erotic falling rhythm farewell earth's bliss fire Fónd are life's Four Quartets four-beat Geoffrey Hill George Herbert George Steiner Gerard Hopkins Helen Gardner Holy hymns life's lustful Little Gidding look lyric major poet metre metrical Nóne passage Paul Valéry perhaps Phillida flouts poet's poetic process possible rhythms prosody proves them áll pyre Quia Amore Langueo quoted R. S. Thomas religious poetry remember rising rhythm Saunders Lewis says seems Sóftly sometimes Songs soul sound stanza syllables symbolism T. S. Eliot's term theme Thomas Thomas Traherne thou thought torment Vaughan voice W. H. Auden word world uncertain writing wrote Wyatt Yeats