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Formal Approaches to Poetry

Author : B. Elan Dresher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197626
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Formal Approaches to Poetry written by B. Elan Dresher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will create greater public awareness of some recent exciting findings in the formal study of poetry. The last influential volume on the subject, Rhythm and Meter , edited by Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, appeared fifteen years ago. Since that time, a number of important theoretical developments have taken place, which have led to new approaches to the analysis of meter. This volume represents some of the most exciting current thinking on the theory of meter. In terms of empirical coverage, the papers focus on a wide variety of languages, including English, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Japanese, Somali, Old Norse, Latin, and Greek. Thus, the collection is truly international in its scope. The volume also contains diverse theoretical approaches that are brought together for the first time, including Optimality Theory (Kiparsky, Hammond), other constraint-based approaches (Friedberg, Hall, Scherr), the Quantitative approach to verse (Tarlinskaja, Friedberg, Hall, Scherr, Youmans) associated with the Russian school of metrics, a mora-based approach (Cole and Miyashita, Fitzgerald), a semantic-pragmatic approach (Fabb), and an alternative generative approach developed in Estonia (M. Lotman and M. K. Lotman). The book will be of interest to both linguists interested in stress and speech rhythm, constraint systems, phrasing, and phonology-syntax interaction and poetry, as well as to students of poetry interested in the connection between language and literature.

A New Theory for American Poetry

Author : Angus FLETCHER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037014
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A New Theory for American Poetry written by Angus FLETCHER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.

The Structure of Old Norse "Dróttkvætt" Poetry

Author : Kari Ellen Gade
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732447
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Structure of Old Norse "Dróttkvætt" Poetry by : Kari Ellen Gade

Download or read book The Structure of Old Norse "Dróttkvætt" Poetry written by Kari Ellen Gade and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the structural peculiarities of ninth- and tenth-century drottkvett poetry and suggests a solution to the mystery of the origins of the drottkvett and its eventual demise in the fourteenth century.

Rethinking Meter

Author : Alan Holder
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838752920
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Meter written by Alan Holder and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study finds that in scanning poetry, the commitment to the "foot" as a unit of measure satisfies a desire for a poem to display a "system." But that system is achieved only at the cost of distorting or obscuring the true stress configuration of verse lines. The foot also comes into play in setting up the notion of an ideal line, supposedly heard by the "mind's ear," and said to be in "tension" or "counterpoint" with the actual line. Rethinking Meter discards this approach as removing us from our authentic experience of a poem's movement." "Before presenting its own view of meter, the book takes up the issues of how the words of a poem are to be enunciated, the place of pauses, and the notion of the line as the essential formal feature marking off poetry from prose. Focusing on iambic pentameter, Rethinking Meter proceeds to offer a view of metrical patterns that discards the foot entirely."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

A Little Book on Form

Author : Robert Hass
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062332449
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book A Little Book on Form written by Robert Hass and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form—from former poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass. Robert Hass—former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize—illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this sophisticated, graceful, and accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop. A Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass’s formidable gifts as both a poet and a critic and reflects his profound education in the art of poetry. Starting with the exploration of a single line as the basic gesture of a poem, and moving into an examination of the essential expressive gestures that exist inside forms, Hass goes beyond approaching form as a set of traditional rules that precede composition, and instead offers penetrating insight into the true openness and instinctiveness of formal creation. A Little Book on Form is a rousing reexamination of our longest lasting mode of literature from one of our greatest living poets.

A Formal Approach to Lyric Poetry

Author : Gemino H. Abad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824806439
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Formal Approach to Lyric Poetry written by Gemino H. Abad and published by . This book was released on 1978-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Poet's Guide to Poetry

Author : Mary Kinzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226923062
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book A Poet's Guide to Poetry written by Mary Kinzie and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Poet’s Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie brings her decades of expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie also shares her own successful classroom tactics that encourage readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional. The three parts of A Poet’s Guide to Poetry lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through the most subtle. The second part carefully examines meter and rhythm, as well as providing a theoretical and practical overview of free verse. The final section offers helpful chapters on writing in form. Rounding out the volume are writing exercises for beginning and advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms, and a bibliography of further reading. For this new edition, Kinzie has carefully reworked the introductory material and first chapter, as well as amended the annotated bibliography to include the most recent works of criticism. The updated guide also contains revised exercises and adjustments throughout the text to make the work as lucid and accessible as possible.

The Hatred of Poetry

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865478201
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem

Author : Wendy Bishop
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 : 9780321011305
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem written by Wendy Bishop and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen ways of Looking for a Poem encourages students to enrich their writing by actively studying and practicing poetic form. Using a unique textbook/anthology format, which includes poems by both emerging and well-known poets, Wendy Bishop demonstrates how various poetic forms offer insight into the often hidden inner mechanics of poem-building, strengthening writing skills and poetry interpretation at the same time.

A Formal Approach to Lyric Poetry

Author : Gémino H. Abad
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Formal Approach to Lyric Poetry written by Gémino H. Abad and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

WHEREAS

Author : Layli Long Soldier
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979610
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book WHEREAS written by Layli Long Soldier and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

The Poetry Toolkit: The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry

Author : Rhian Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441182780
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry Toolkit: The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry written by Rhian Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 2nd edition, this guide helps students build the knowledge and tools needed to tackle poetry with confidence.

Naming the Unnameable

Author : Michelle Bonzcek Evory
Publisher : Open Suny Textbooks
ISBN 13 : 9781942341505
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Naming the Unnameable written by Michelle Bonzcek Evory and published by Open Suny Textbooks. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for the New Generation assembles a wide range of poetry from contemporary poets, along with history, advice, and guidance on the craft of poetry. Informed by a consideration to the psychology of invention, Michelle Bonczek Evory¿s writing philosophy emphasizes both spontaneity and discipline, teaching students how to capture the chaos in our memories, imagination, and bodies with language, and discovering ways to mold them into their own cosmos, sculpt them like clay on a page. Exercises aim to make writing a form of play in its early stages that gives way to more enriching insights through revision, embracing the writing of poetry as both a love of language and a tool that enables us to explore ourselves and understand the world. Naming the Unnameable promotes an understanding of poetry as a living art and provides ways for students to involve themselves in the growing contemporary poetry community that thrives in America today.

The Sounds of Poetry

Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466878495
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Sounds of Poetry written by Robert Pinsky and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing." As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America's best spokesmen for poetry. In this fascinating book, he explains how poets use the "technology" of poetry--its sounds--to create works of art that are "performed" in us when we read them aloud. He devotes brief, informative chapters to accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets--from Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to W. C. Williams, Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, C. K. Williams, Louise Glück, and Frank Bidart. This ideal introductory volume belongs in the library of every poet and student of poetry.

In Fine Form

Author : Kate Braid
Publisher : Polestar Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781927575482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book In Fine Form written by Kate Braid and published by Polestar Book Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade since the publication of the first edition of In Fine Form, there has been a resurgence of poets writing in "form" - in sonnets and ghazals, triolets and ballads, villanelles and palindromes -- and formal poetry has become more visible in books, literary journals and classrooms. The first edition of this anthology was called "groundbreaking," "a paradigm shift" and "a landmark text." Since then, it has gone through several printings and been widely used in classrooms at all levels from elementary school to university, by writers who want to try something new, and by readers eager to explore a whole other side of poetry. In Fine Form Second Edition, is an anthology that continues to break new ground, a thrilling collection of more than 25 forms and 180 poems arranged by section, one for each form, with a brief introduction to the form's history and variations. An extended essay explores common poetic terms and technical devices. Surprising and exhilarating, here is a showcase for some of the best poetry this country has produced.

American and British Poetry

Author : Harriet Semmes Alexander
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719017063
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book American and British Poetry written by Harriet Semmes Alexander and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Author : Stephen Cushman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400841429
Total Pages : 1680 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics written by Stephen Cushman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 1680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important poetry reference for more than four decades—now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15,000 words, offering a more thorough treatment—including expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies—than conventional handbooks or dictionaries. This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without. Thoroughly revised and updated by a new editorial team for twenty-first-century students, scholars, and poets More than 250 new entries cover recent terms, movements, and related topics Broader international coverage includes articles on the poetries of more than 110 nations, regions, and languages Expanded coverage of poetries of the non-Western and developing worlds Updated bibliographies and cross-references New, easier-to-use page design Fully indexed for the first time