Description
Invitation to Poetry
The Pleasures of Studying Poetry and Poetics
Author: Steinman Lisa M.
Language: EnglishKeywords
anyone; poetry; language; become fluent; guide; essential; invitation; traditional; examination; serious; book; student; indepth; british; centuries; order; twentieth; sixteenth; sense; periods; relationship; technical; close
Publication date: 01-2008
256 p. · 15x22.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 01-2008
256 p. · 16x23.9 cm · Hardback
Description
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- Teaches the serious student how to ?speak poetry? through an in-depth examination of the traditional features and technical vocabulary of poetic language;
- Examines British and American materials from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in order to give students a sense of a range of different period styles, poetic projects, and strategies;
- Explicitly examines, questions and challenges the relationship of poetry to literary periods and canons;
- Offers the technical tools essential for close reading and interpretation across a broad chronological spectrum.
Acknowledgments.
1. Conceptual Syntax: An Introduction to the Way Poems Invite Different Approaches and Position Readers.
2. Speaking Poetry: Night Pieces and Intertextual Conversations.
3. The Gestures and Subjects of the Sonnet.
4. The Uses of Meter and Rhythm in the Sonnet.
5. The Form of the Voice: Tone and Diction.
6. Modes, Odes, and Odic Gestures.
7. What is Pastoral?.
8. Traditions, Legacies, and Individual Talents.
9. Forests and Trees, or Playing with Poems.
Index