The book Two Lectures Introductory to the Study of Poetry was written by author H C Henry Charles Beeching Here you can read free online of Two Lectures Introductory to the Study of Poetry book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Two Lectures Introductory to the Study of Poetry a good or bad book?
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Hence bad verse is more intolerable than bad prose. But further, metre being not only rhythm but regulated rhythm, it is excellently adapted as a medium for poetry, which is not only emotion but, as Wordsworth said, "recollected emotion"; not wild passion, but passion conceived of as something in itself precious, which the poet wishes to impart to others. The poet desires to rouse not any emotion, but some one emotion in particular. Hence various emotions find their fit expression in appropriat...e metres. It is not by idle chance or mere caprice that Paradise Lost is written in iambic verse and Shelley's Ode to a Skylark in trochaics. Even in metres which appear to be least bound by rule, such as the choruses in Samson Agonistes, it will be found on in- vestigation that a reason underlies the apparent vagary. It is with these rhythms as with the wheels in Ezekiel's vision : " To the place Expression in Poetry. 35 whither the head looked they followed it, for the spirit of a living creature was in them.
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