| Author | : Mary Oliver |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Release Date | : 1994 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780156724005 |
| Pages | : 130 pages |
Offers advice on reading and writing poetry, and discusses imitation, sound, the line, poem forms, free verse, diction, imagery, revision, and workshops
| Author | : John Lennard |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Release Date | : 2006-01-06 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780191532733 |
| Pages | : 448 pages |
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.
| Author | : Mary Oliver |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780395850862 |
| Pages | : 194 pages |
An introduction to the sound, rhyme, meter, and scansion of metrical poetry with examples from the Elizabethan Age to Elizabeth Bishop
| Author | : Babette Deutsch |
| Publisher | : New York : Funk & Wagnalls |
| Release Date | : 1974 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 177 pages |
The classic reference work--an invaluable sourcebook for poets and readers
| Author | : Mary Oliver |
| Publisher | : Beacon Press |
| Release Date | : 2012-03-28 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0807095397 |
| Pages | : 96 pages |
This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume) Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
| Author | : Ron Padgett |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 228 pages |
A reference guide to various forms of poetry with entries arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry defines the form and gives its history, examples, and suggestions for usage.
| Author | : Ted Kooser |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Release Date | : 2007-03-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780803259782 |
| Pages | : 168 pages |
Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.
Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.
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| Author | : Louis Untermeyer |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0595100651 |
| Pages | : 320 pages |
In this classic reference work, Louis Untermeyer gives us our American poetry in its essential pieces. Written by one of the great twentieth century readers, reading poetry becomes an art easily understood and accessed by all. Whether you are looking for the basic elements of a sonnet or want to read further about poetic image or the place of twentieth century poetry in the larger canon this book "pursues" the questions and offers surprisingly insightful and satisfying answers.Know what a sestina is? Whether you answer "yes" or "no," this book is for you: a must have for any serious reader or writer of poetry.
| Author | : J. Lennard |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 2006-01-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9786610905416 |
| Pages | : 304 pages |
"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.
| Author | : Edward Hirsch |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Release Date | : 1999-03-22 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780547543727 |
| Pages | : 288 pages |
"Read a poem to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read it while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone sleeps next to you. Say it over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of culture—the constant buzzing noise that surrounds you—has momentarily stopped. This poem has come from a great distance to find you." So begins this astonishing book by one of our leading poets and critics. In an unprecedented exploration of the genre, Hirsch writes about what poetry is, why it matters, and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message—which is of vital importance in day-to-day life—can reach us and make a difference. For Hirsch, poetry is not just a part of life, it is life, and expresses like no other art our most sublime emotions. In a marvelous reading of world poetry, including verse by such poets as Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda, William Wordsworth, Sylvia Plath, Charles Baudelaire, and many more, Hirsch discovers the meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives but don't know how to read it.
| Author | : Lewis Turco |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781584650225 |
| Pages | : 337 pages |
Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users.
| Author | : Alice B. Fogel |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 2009 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780980167252 |
| Pages | : 189 pages |
Poetry. Reference. Criticism. Poet, educator, and Poetry Foundation bestseller Alice B. Fogel has written the perfect book for those who feel uncomfortable with reading poetry. Divided into eight "steps," this "handbook" looks at such topics as shape, words, sound, images, and emotion. Fogel illustrates each step from her own poetry. "Great advice, good humor, excellent examples . . . and not textbooky. Playful and accessible, the continuing point that you don't have to 'get' poems to get them will ease a lot of minds. This is an important and mysterious subject-the reading of poetry. I learned a lot. Painlessly"--Rebecca Rule. The book is an essential resource for individuals, reading groups, teachers--even friends and families of poets who want to feel more comfortable with poetry.
| Author | : Mary Oliver |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Release Date | : 2014-10-14 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0698170040 |
| Pages | : 96 pages |
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature. Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seeming patience of oak trees, or the artworks of Franz Marc, Oliver reminds us of the transformative power of attention and how much can be contained within the smallest moments. At its heart, Blue Horses asks what it means to truly belong to this world, to live in it attuned to all its changes. Humorous, gentle, and always honest, Oliver is a visionary of the natural world.
| Author | : Michael O'Neill,Madeleine Callaghan |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Release Date | : 2017-12-18 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1118308735 |
| Pages | : 352 pages |
"This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era--Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelley--as well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Along with its exceptional coverage, the volume is alert to relevant contexts, and opens up ways of understanding Romantic poetry"--
A new collection of forty-six works features deep explorations of such themes as the mysteries of life, love, and death, in a volume that investigates clues that can be found in the natural world and offers insight into the writer's use of unadorned language.
| Author | : Mary Oliver |
| Publisher | : Beacon Press |
| Release Date | : 2006-04-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0807068888 |
| Pages | : 192 pages |
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One.
| Author | : Judson Jerome |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1986 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780898792195 |
| Pages | : 224 pages |
This handbook teaches the basics of the modern poet's craft: diction, imagery, metrics, verse forms, symbolism.
| Author | : Adam Sol |
| Publisher | : ECW Press |
| Release Date | : 2019-03-12 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1773053175 |
| Pages | : 200 pages |
A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verse Developed from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging intelligence for which he is known in the classroom. With a breezy style, Sol delivers essays that are perfect for a quick read or to be grouped together as a curriculum. Though How a Poem Moves is not a textbook, it demonstrates poetry’s range and pleasures through encounters with individual poems that span traditions, techniques, and ambitions. This illuminating book is for readers who are afraid they “don’t get” poetry but who believe that, with a welcoming guide, they might conquer their fear and cultivate a new appreciation.