A Foreword to Literature

A. E. Coppard action American anapests Ancient Mariner audience Awake and Sing ballad blank verse chapter characters Chaucer Coleridge comedy convention couplet course criticism drama DUCHESS effect elements Eliot Elizabethan emotional English feel fiction free verse girl give Hamlet hand heaven human humor idea images Keats kind lady literary literature Lucan the Butler Maxwell Anderson meaning method Milton mind modern mood nature never night novel Omar Khayyám Paradise Lost pattern person phrases play playwright plot poem poet poetic poetry point of view problem prose qualities reader rhyme rhythm satire scene sense Shakespeare short story Sinclair Lewis singing Sir Lucan song sonnet sort sound speak speech style symbols T. S. Eliot talk tell Tennyson thee theme thing thou thought tion trochee truth usually vivid words Wordsworth writer York