An Introduction To Poetic Forms
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Poetic Form
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Author : Michael D. Hurley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-08
Poetic Form written by Michael D. Hurley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The perfect gift for your favorite poet or lover of poetry From Old English to the poetry of the present, discover how a poem's form shapes and informs the reader's and writer's experience.
Poetic Form
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Author : David Caplan
language : en
Publisher: Longman
Release Date : 2007
Poetic Form written by David Caplan and has been published by Longman this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary form categories.
Poetic Form offers a clear, compact, and entertaining introduction to the history, structure, and practice of the language's most popular verse forms. Written with humor and wit, this guide aims to convey the pleasures of poetry -- a sestina's delightful gamesmanship, an epigram's barbed wit, a haiku's deceptive simplicity -- and the fun of exploring the poetic forms. Each chapter defines a particular verse form, briefly describes its history, and offers examples. Writing exercises challenge students to utilize the forms in creative expression. Covering a wider range of forms in greater detail and with more poetic examples than similar guides on the market, it provides enough material to thoroughly introduce the language's major forms while allowing flexibility in the classroom.
Poetic Designs
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Author : Stephen Adams
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 1997-04-07
Poetic Designs written by Stephen Adams and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-07 with Poetry categories.
There are numerous introductions to poetry and prosody available, but none at once so comprehensive and so accessible as this. With the increasing emphasis on free verse, the past generation has developed a widespread impression that the study of poetic meter is old fashioned—or even that form ‘doesn’t matter’ in poetry. It is an impression that has not been dispelled by the emphasis of some of the existing texts in the area on forms that are now rare or outmoded. The irony is that simultaneously in the past decade interest in formal matters among many poets and literary scholars has been on the increase; the reality is that prosody is today on the cutting edge of literary studies. Stephen Adams’ text provides a full treatment of traditional topics, from the iambic pentameter through other accentual-syllabic rhythms (trochaic, dactylic and so on) and covering as well other metrical types, stanza structure, the sonnet and other standard forms. Adams also includes a variety of topics not covered in most other introductions to the topic; perhaps most significantly, he provides a full chapter on form in free verse. Moreover, he treats rhyme extensively and includes a comprehensive chapter on literary figures. Poetic Designs is thus much more that an introduction to prosody; it is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the nature of poetry in English. It is a book for the general reader and the aspiring writer as well as for the student, a book intended (in the words of the author) to help ‘heighten the experience of poetry.’
The Cambridge Introduction To Poetic Form
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Author : Michael D. Hurley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Cambridge Introduction To Poetic Form written by Michael D. Hurley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with English language categories.
"This work provides lucid, elegant, and original analyses of poetic form and its workings in a wide range of poems"--
An Introduction To Poetic Forms
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Author : Patrick Gill
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-29
An Introduction To Poetic Forms written by Patrick Gill and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
An Introduction to Poetic Forms offers specimen discussions of poems through the lens of form. While each of its chapters does provide a standard definition of the form in question in its opening paragraphs, their main objective is to provide readings of specific examples to illustrate how individual poets have deviated from or subverted those expectations usually associated with the form under discussion. While providing the most vital information on the most widely taught forms of poetry, then, this collection will very quickly demonstrate that counting syllables and naming rhyme schemes is not the be-all and end-all of poetic form. Instead, each chapter will contain cross-references to other literary forms and periods as well as make clear the importance of the respective form to the culture at large: be it the democratising communicative power of the ballad or the objectifying male gaze of the blazon and resistance to same in the contreblazon – the efficacy of form is explored in the fullness of its cultural dimensions. In using standard definitions only as a starting point and instead focusing on lively debates around the cultural impact of poetic form, the textbook helps students and instructors to see poetic forms not as a static and lifeless affair but as living, breathing testament to the ongoing evolution of cultural debates. In the final analysis, the book is interested in showing the complexities and contradictions inherent in the very nature of literary form itself: how each concrete example deviates from the standard template while at the same time employing it as a foil to generate meaning.
A Kick In The Head
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2009-03-10
A Kick In The Head written by and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-10 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"Readers will have the good fortune to experience poetry as art, game, joke, list, song, story, statement, question, memory. A primer like no other." — School Library Journal (starred review) In this splendid and playful volume — second of a trilogy — an acclaimed creative team presents examples of twenty-nine poetic forms, demonstrating not only the (sometimes bendable) rules of poetry, but also the spirit that brings these forms to life. Featuring poems from the likes of Eleanor Farjeon (aubade), X. J. Kennedy (elegy), Ogden Nash (couplet), Liz Rosenberg (pantoum), and William Shakespeare, the sonnet king himself, A Kick in the Head perfectly illustrates Robert Frost’s maxim that poetry without rules is like a tennis match without a net. Back matter includes notes on poetic forms.
The Book Of Forms
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Author : Lewis Turco
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2000
The Book Of Forms written by Lewis Turco and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users.
An Introduction To English Poetry
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Author : James Fenton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-05-29
An Introduction To English Poetry written by James Fenton and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-29 with Poetry categories.
James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and discussing the work of poets as wide ranging as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and Blake, it covers all varieties of poetic practice in English. 'It is hard to imagine a beginner who could not learn from [this book]. If you know a young poet, give them this' The Times Literary Supplement
Poetic Rhythm
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Author : Derek Attridge
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-09-28
Poetic Rhythm written by Derek Attridge and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is the first introduction to rhythm and meter that begins where students are: as speakers of English familiar with the rhythms of ordinary spoken language, and of popular verse such as nursery rhymes, songs, and rap. Poetic rhythm builds on this knowledge and experience, taking the reader from the most basic questions about the rhythms of spoken English to the elaborate achievements of past and present poets. Terminology is straightforward, the simple system of scansion that is introduced is suitable for both handwriting and computer use, and there are frequent practical exercises. Chapters deal with the elements of verse, English speech rhythms, the major types of metrical poetry, free verse, and the role of sense and syntax. Poetic rhythm will help readers of poetry experience and enjoy its rhythms in all their power, subtlety, and diversity, and will serve as an invaluable tool for those who wish to write or discuss poetry in English at a basic as well as a more advanced level.