Singing School Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

Name: Singing School Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
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ISBN: 9780393348972

ISBN-10: 0393348970

ISBN-13: 9780393348972

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert E. Pinsky

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Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work: studying magnificent, monumentally enduring poems and how they are made— in terms borrowed from the “singing school” of William Butler Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium.”Robert Pinsky’s headnotes for each of the 80 poems and his brief introductions to each section take a writer’s view of specific works: William Carlos Williams’s “Fine Work with Pitch and Copper” for intense verbal music; Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” for…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/28/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.82" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English