Be a PoetTwickenham Press, 2007 - 420 páginas Originally published in 2007 by Twickenham Press, Be a Poet! is a friendly, accessible guidebook for beginning poets of all ages and situations, containing many exercises designed to expand their repertoire of rhythms and forms. Bogen uses examples from canonical poets like Carl Sandburg and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as three contemporary poets whom she has interviewed personally about their writing habits and tricks. This handbook for the poetically inclined includes in-depth coverage of words and how to use them effectively, plus chapters on rhyming, rhythm, the iamb from blank verse to the various forms of the sonnet, and exotica like art songs, Pindaric and Horatian odes, and terza rima. Its concluding appendix listing addresses of writers' organizations is especially useful. |
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... English . Like the Old High German of the Saxons — and in- deed like German today - Old English was heavily inflected ; that is , every noun had a gender · - masculine , feminine , or neuter - along with gender - markers , and four ...
... English were beset by Norman - French invaders and defeated at the celebrated Battle of Hastings . Norman kings held sway in England for the next two hun- dred years , and French - first Norman French , then Parisian French — became the ...
... ENGLISH VERSE Before one can run , one must be able to walk , as the say- ing goes , and in the writing of poetry , that means one must have a firm grasp of what a syllable is so as to rec- ognize one at will . As this matter may prove ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
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