ISBN: 9780748644018

Quickly equips readers with the strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poemsPraise for the first edition: 'Wide-ranging, provocative, and thorough, Strachan … Mehr…

Quickly equips readers with the strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poemsPraise for the first edition: 'Wide-ranging, provocative, and thorough, Strachan and Terry provide the student with all the tools necessary for the study of poetry. I can think of no other volume that offers the reader so much in so few pages. This is the text of choice for all students and teachers of the subject.'Duncan Wu, University of Glasgow Based on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout. o Packed full of examples, from the work of Shakespeare to Edwin Morgan and from Sylvia Plath to John Agardo Detailed index of poets, works, terms, forms & conceptso Full glossary of poetic terms, from /acatalectic/ to /wrenched accent/, with cross-references and page references of examplesNew for this edition:o End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research taskso New readings of modern women's poetryo Section on How to Write Poetry with exerciseso Suggestions for further reading ? both books and websites Books, [PU: Edinburgh University Press]<

ISBN: 9780748644018

Based on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of… Mehr…

Based on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry, using practical examples throughout. The book begins with a brief history of English verse and ends with an extensive glossary of poetical terms.A chapter on writing poetry including 'Poets on poetry' and 'Forty practical tips' on writing your own poetryPractical exercises at the end of each chapter based on poems such as Carol Ann Duffy's 'Mrs Sisyphus', 'Wish You Were Here' by Colette Bryce, and Thomas Hardy's Thoughts of Phena at News of her Death'New readings of individual poems including Gray's 'Elegy', Milton's Paradise Lost, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and Adrienne Rich's 'Transcendental Etude'A guide to further reading Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Poetry>Poetry>Poetry, Edinburgh University Press Core >1<

ISBN: 9780748644018

*Poetry* / Taschenbuch für 34.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft Medien > Bücher nein Buch (kartoniert) Bücher > Wissenschaft > Literaturwissenschaft, EDI… Mehr…

*Poetry* / Taschenbuch für 34.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft Medien > Bücher nein Buch (kartoniert) Bücher > Wissenschaft > Literaturwissenschaft, EDINBURGH UNIV PR<

2011, ISBN: 9780748644018

Buch, Softcover, 2nd Revised edition, [PU: Edinburgh University Press], Edinburgh University Press, 2011