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Unlock how poetry moves us: learn the tools writers use to express passion and imagination.
This edition distills Beeching’s exploration of how poets convey feeling and vision through language. It looks at why metre matters, how rhythm shapes mood, and how poets “paint to the imagination” by summoning pictures with a single, powerful image. Drawing on whether Shakespeare, Milton, or Tennyson achieves the moment, the lectures illuminate the craft behind enduring lines and the choices poets make to move readers.
- Understand the link between emotion, form, and meaning in poetry
- See how metre and rhythm elevate speech into art
- Learn how imagery and comparison create quick, vivid pictures
- Explore examples that show revision, precision, and the craft of expression
Ideal for readers seeking a clear, practical look at how poetry works, from its core ideas to its best techniques.
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Excerpt from Two Lectures Introductory to the Study of Poetry
That is no doubt an extreme case, but it is all the more useful as an illustration. It helps us to realize how potent a faculty is the endow ment of the dramatist, which can pierce through human appearance to its essential qualities. Can conceive by a sure instinct how, in given circum stances, the given character must act, and can represent it to us, because it is vivid to him, in all the verisimilitude of essential detail. Such imagination is plainly one large and special side of the faculty of seeing things out of their commonplace associations. As a branch of the same head would rank the still rarer power of conceiving types of character, that for certain reasons have no actual existence in the world we know, such types as Shakespeare's Ariel and Caliban and Puck.
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Originally published in 1901, this book presents the content of two lectures on the nature of poetry delivered by Henry Charles Beeching: the first lecture focuses on 'Passion and Imagination'; the second is based around 'Expression in Poetry'. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in poetry and literary criticism.
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