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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971019303321

Autore

Weiss Shira Wolosky <1954->

Titolo

The art of poetry : how to read a poem / / Shira Wolosky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-045162-9

1-281-51516-7

9786611515164

0-19-970783-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 230 p.)

Disciplina

821.009

809.1

Soggetti

English language - Versification

Poetics

Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; 1. Word Choice; 2. Syntax and the Poetic Line; 3. Images: Simile and Metaphor; 4. Metaphor and the Sonnet; 5. The Sonnet; 6. Poetic Conventions; 7. More Verse Forms; 8. Personification; 9. Poetic Voice; 10. Gender and Poetic Voice; 11. Poetic Rhythm: Metric; 12. Poetic Rhythm: Sound and Rhyme; 13. Rhetoric: More Tropes; 14. Incomplete Figures and the Art of Reading; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliographical Backgrounds; Index of Poems; Index of Poets; Index of Terms and Topics

Sommario/riassunto

As the least literal form of creative writing, for many readers poetry is also the most cryptic. Shira Wolosky introduces the skills needed for reading poetry, working from the individual word, line and image to verse forms, voice, gender and metre.