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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... language of court and city , while English hung on in the backwaters , where it was much modified . Chaucer ( ca. 1343-1400 ) spoke French and read Latin , the language of learning and the Church , but he wrote his universally ...
... languages is another story ; even from their earliest days , such languages as existed had to be far more sophisticated . So - o - 0— why don't we ? - yes ... language ? Let's do it again , this time concentrating on its 143 RHYTHM AND METER.
... language . With the accents in- variably falling on the first syllable of polysyllabic words , Anglo - Saxon verse was altogether falling , indeed as one can see from the passage that we looked at in chapter two with respect to the ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
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