Art of Poetry How to Read a Poem

Name: Art of Poetry How to Read a Poem
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ISBN: 9780195371185

ISBN-10: 0195371186

ISBN-13: 9780195371185

Edition: 2008

Authors: Shira Wolosky

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A uniquely comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to poetic form, The Art of Poetry moves progressively from smaller units such as the word, line, and image, to larger features such as verse forms and voice.In fourteen engaging, eloquently written chapters, Wolosky explores in depth how poetry works while offering brilliant readings of some of the finest lyric poetry in the English and American traditions. Both readers new to poetry and poetry veterans will be moved and enlightened as Wolosky interprets works by William Shakespeare, John Donne, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, and others.Featuring a comprehensive bibliography, a glossary of…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 8.50" wide x 5.51" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Preface



Word Choice



Syntax and the Poetic Line



Images: Simile and Metaphor



Metaphor and the Sonnet



The Sonnet



Poetic Conventions



More Verse Forms



Personification



Poetic Voice



Gender and Poetic Voice



Poetic Rhythm: Metric



Poetic Rhythm: Sound and Rhyme



Rhetoric: More Tropes



Incomplete Figures and the Art of Reading


Appendix


Glossary


Bibliographical Backgrounds


Index of Poems


Index of Poets


Index of Terms and Topics