The Poetry HandbookOUP Oxford, 2006 M01 6 - 448 páginas The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry, from metre to gender, offer a wide-ranging general account, and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne, Elizabeth Bishop, Geoffrey Hill, and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott), to build up sustained analytical readings. Thorough and compact, with notes and quotations supplemented by detailed reference to the Norton Anthology of Poetry and a companion website with texts, links, and further discussion, The Poetry Handbook is indispensable for all school and undergraduate students of English. A final chapter addresses examinations of all kinds, and sample essays by undergraduates are posted on the website. Critical and scholarly terms are italicised and clearly explained, both in the text and in a complete glossary; the volume also includes suggestions for further reading. The first edition, widely praised by teachers and students, showed how the pleasures of poetry are heightened by rigorous understanding and made that understanding readily available. This second edition — revised, expanded, updated, and supported by a new companion website - confirm The Poetry Handbook as the best guide to poetry available in English. |
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... feet, each comprising an unstressed followed by a stressed beat, the ictus (Latin, 'a blow or stroke') ; I have separated the feet with vertical slashes : When I | doe COUNT | the CLOCK | that TELS | the TIME This kind of foot is an ...
... feet, each comprising an unstressed followed by a stressed beat, the ictus (Latin, 'a blow or stroke') ; I have separated the feet with vertical slashes : When I | doe COUNT | the CLOCK | that TELS | the TIME This kind of foot is an ...
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... feet per line : dimeter dimetric three feet per line : trimeter trimetric four feet per line : tetrameter tetrametric five feet per line : pentameter pentametric six feet per line : hexameter hexametric seven feet per line : heptameter ...
... feet per line : dimeter dimetric three feet per line : trimeter trimetric four feet per line : tetrameter tetrametric five feet per line : pentameter pentametric six feet per line : hexameter hexametric seven feet per line : heptameter ...
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... feet are varieties of substitute feet, those which replace a regular foot. Lines made up of iambic and anapæstic feet produce a rising rhythm, because stressed beats, for which the voice tends to be pitched slightly higher, come after ...
... feet are varieties of substitute feet, those which replace a regular foot. Lines made up of iambic and anapæstic feet produce a rising rhythm, because stressed beats, for which the voice tends to be pitched slightly higher, come after ...
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... Feet with two beats (iambs and trochees) create duple metres, whose basic pattern is an alternation of stressed and ... feet; sesquidimeters, 21⁄2, etc. similarly, feet with three beats (mainly anapæsts and dactyls) create 7 Metre.
... Feet with two beats (iambs and trochees) create duple metres, whose basic pattern is an alternation of stressed and ... feet; sesquidimeters, 21⁄2, etc. similarly, feet with three beats (mainly anapæsts and dactyls) create 7 Metre.
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John Lennard. similarly, feet with three beats (mainly anapæsts and dactyls) create triple metres, and in English rising triple metres tend to be comic because of the tripping rhythm produced by consecutive unstressed beats. Limericks ...
John Lennard. similarly, feet with three beats (mainly anapæsts and dactyls) create triple metres, and in English rising triple metres tend to be comic because of the tripping rhythm produced by consecutive unstressed beats. Limericks ...
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2 Form | 33 |
3 Layout | 81 |
4 Punctuation | 105 |
5 Lineation | 153 |
6 Rhyme | 189 |
7 Diction | 222 |
8 Syntax | 263 |
9 History | 290 |
10 Biography | 315 |
11 Gender | 337 |
12 Exams and Written Work | 352 |
Glossary and Index of Technical Terms | 360 |
Select Bibliography and Further Reading | 391 |
Index of Poems and Poets Quoted and Cited | 403 |
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