Poet's Guide to Poetry

Name: Poet's Guide to Poetry
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ISBN: 9780226437392

ISBN-10: 0226437396

ISBN-13: 9780226437392

Edition: 1999 (Reprint)

Authors: Mary Kinzie

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A Poet's Guide to Poetrybrings Mary Kinzie's expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie shares her own successful classroom tactics—encouraging readers to approach a poem…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 572
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Introduction


The Enchantment of the WorkWriting the Poem You Read


A View of the Artistic Process



The Elements of Relation and Resemblance


Line and Half-Meaning


Syntax and Whole Meaning


Diction and Layers in Meaning


Trope and Thought


Rhetoric and Speech


Rhythm as Combination



The Elements, Controlled in Time


Accentual-Syllabic Meter: The Role of Stress and Interval


Stanza and Rhyme: The Role of Echo


Further Rhythms in English—Counted Forms: Accentual Verse and Syllabic Verse (including Haiku)


Further Rhythms in English—Non-Counted Forms:The Four Freedoms of Free Verse



Writing in Form


Exercises for Beginning and Advanced Writers


Poetic Terms


Annotated


Bibliography of Further Reading