On Reading Poetry

answer assumptions beat centuries charm Chaucer Coleridge colour contemporary poetry couplet dactyl daffodils dance delight describe dress effect English poetry Epic epochs Erewhon eternal experience Faerie Queene feeling five-beat free verse Greek poetry heroic Heroic couplet iambus instance intensity or passion irradiate Keats language of poetry light lines looks Martin Buber meaning measure metrical Milton mind modern moonlight narrative poems never Nevertheless night ordinary speech Paradise Lost passage past perhaps phrase Plato's poet's poetic poets Pope Pope's Prithee prose quoted reader READING POETRY rhyme Robert Bridges seems sense sentence Shakespeare Shelley sleep sometimes song soul speak sprung rhythm stanza story stresses Suckling's verses suppose syllabic metres syllables tells theme things Thomas Nashe thou thought trochee true truth tune unstressed verse-forms William Godwin wind wings words Wordsworth write wrote