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  • The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

    The Art of Poetry by Wolosky, Shira;

    How to Read a Poem

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 25 September 2008

    • ISBN 9780195371185
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages248 pages
    • Size 216x140x15 mm
    • Weight 318 g
    • Language English
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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 poetic terms, and a new appendix of suggestions for further reading, The Art of Poetry is a rich source of inspiration.

    The Art of Poetryi is both a superb technical manual and an authentic guide to the art of reading poetry. With brilliance and extraordinary lucidity, Wolosky illuminates such essential matters as metaphor, poetic voice, and the crucial relation of rhetoric to poetic meaning. I cannot imagine a more useful and distinguished book of this kind.

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    Table of Contents:

    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

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