Table of Contents:
  • Conceptual syntax: an introduction to the way poems invite different approaches and position readers
  • Speaking poetry: night pieces and intertextual conversations
  • The gestures and subjects of the sonnet
  • The uses of meter and rhythm in the sonnet
  • The form of the voice: tone and diction
  • Modes, odes, and odic gestures
  • What is pastoral?
  • Traditions, legacies, and individual talents
  • Forests and trees, or playing with poems.