Hypnotic Poetry : : A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems and Its Literary Significance / / Edward D. Snyder.

An analysis of the psychological effect of word arrangement in various well-known poems.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1930
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (164 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • I. Spellweaving Poems
  • II. An Illuminating Hypothesis
  • III. Hypnotism and Other Trances
  • IV. Evidence
  • V. Semihypnotic Poems
  • VI. Poetic Inspiration
  • VII. Free Verse in America
  • VIII. Is Poetry an Escape from Reality?
  • IX. The Seat of the Scornful
  • X. Towards a Sounder Criticism
  • Works Cited
  • Index of Poets