The Craft of Literature

18th century A. A. Milne action æsthetic alliteration audience Bacon ballad beauty Beowulf blank verse characteristics characters Charlotte Brontë classical climax colour comedy contemporary device Dickens drama early effect Elizabethan emotion English literature English prose epic epithet essay essayists example expression feeling fiction figure give Goldsmith human idea imagination interest Jane Austen Julius Cæsar kind language less lines literary live lyric manner matter meaning metaphor method metre Midsummer Night's Dream Milton mind modern mood moon narrative natural never novel novelist passion pattern persons picture play plot poem poet poet's poetic poetry purpose reader realised reveal rhythm Richardson rime romantic scenes sense sentiment Shakespeare Shelley's short story simile simply songs sonnet sound speech stage stanza style subject-matter suggests tale Tamburlaine Tennyson's theme things thought tion to-day tragedy Twelfth Night unity W. B. Yeats W. H. Davies words writing written