In Pursuit of Poetry

A. E. Housman accent Amy Lowell ballad beauty blank verse Byron called century Chaucer classic criticism death delight Donne doth Drayton's dream effect elegy Elizabethan Emily Dickinson emotions England English verse epic eternal example eyes feet five-stress four-stress French Greek heart heroic couplet Howard Moss Howard Nemerov human iambic iambic pentameter influence inspired Keats Keats's King live meter metrical Milton modern mystic nature never passages passion pastoral pause Petrarch Petrarchan poem poet poetic poetry prose reader rhyme rhyme-scheme rhythm Robert Bridges Robert Frost Romantic poets satire Shakespeare Shelley shepherds singing sleep song sonnet sequences soul sound speak stanza stress sweet syllables symbolism T. S. Eliot Tennyson thee theme things Thomas thou thought W. H. Auden wind word Wordsworth writing written wrote