The poetry handbook : a guide to reading poetry for pleasure and practical criticism /

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Provides a practical guide to the poet's craft. Topics such as metre, form, layout, lineation, punctuation, rhyme, diction and syntax are covered and at the end of each chapter, each topic is applied to the same poem, Nobel-winner Derek Walcott's "Nearing Forty".

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Autore principale: Lennard, John
Natura: Printed Book
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: New York : Oxford University Press, c1996.
Soggetti:
English poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc. > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Criticism > Authorship > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Poetry > Explication > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Books and reading > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Poetics > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Accesso online:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0605/96005461-d.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/96005461-b.html
Sommario:
  • 1. Metre
  • 2. Form
  • 3. Layout
  • 4. Punctuation
  • 5. Lineation
  • 6. Rhyme
  • 7. Diction
  • 8. Syntax
  • 9. History
  • 10. Biography
  • 11. Gender
  • 12. Exams
  • Glossary and Index of Technical Terms
  • Index of Poems and Poets Quoted and Cited.

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