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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... verse' and 'iambic pentameter', much about form beyond 'couplet' and 'sonnet', or anything about rhyme more complicated than an assertion that two words do or don't. The commonest fault of their own writing is an inability to use any ...
... verse' and 'iambic pentameter', much about form beyond 'couplet' and 'sonnet', or anything about rhyme more complicated than an assertion that two words do or don't. The commonest fault of their own writing is an inability to use any ...
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... verse 19 of 'The Twa Sisters', an old Scottish ballad––“The miller quickly drew the dam, [/] And there he found a drowned woman”12–– the last word would normally be a trochee (WOman), but the rhyme 12 A line-break is usually represented ...
... verse 19 of 'The Twa Sisters', an old Scottish ballad––“The miller quickly drew the dam, [/] And there he found a drowned woman”12–– the last word would normally be a trochee (WOman), but the rhyme 12 A line-break is usually represented ...
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... verse “then” rhymes with “Ellen”, forcing the name from 'ELLen' to 'ellEN'. An accent thus forced to move along by one or more beats is wrenched : they rarely sound good but can be useful, even necessary, in a particular poem. Scanning ...
... verse “then” rhymes with “Ellen”, forcing the name from 'ELLen' to 'ellEN'. An accent thus forced to move along by one or more beats is wrenched : they rarely sound good but can be useful, even necessary, in a particular poem. Scanning ...
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... verse, and many critics (who should know better), seem to think neoclassical prosody has no relevance after Modernism, but when metrical poetry was joined by free-verse poetry it didn't die away––nor even slacken much. It is true that ...
... verse, and many critics (who should know better), seem to think neoclassical prosody has no relevance after Modernism, but when metrical poetry was joined by free-verse poetry it didn't die away––nor even slacken much. It is true that ...
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... verse poets need special prosodic attention. Eliot developed and influentially disseminated (partly in verse-drama) an accentual system, for which Old and Middle English prosodic models are needed as often as neoclassical ones, and a ...
... verse poets need special prosodic attention. Eliot developed and influentially disseminated (partly in verse-drama) an accentual system, for which Old and Middle English prosodic models are needed as often as neoclassical ones, and a ...
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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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