The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism

Sampul Depan
Oxford University Press, 1996 - 219 halaman
The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and practical guide to the poet's craft. There are chapters on metre, form, layout, lineation, punctuation, rhyme, diction, syntax, history, biography, and gender, as well as one on exams which includes sample essays by undergraduates. At the end of everychapter each topic is applied to the same poem, Nobel-winner Derek Walcott's `Nearing Forty', building up a full technical reading. Critical and scholarly terms are italicized and clearly explained, both in the text and in glossaries; notes and quotations are supplemented by detailed reference toboth the Oxford Anthology of English Literature and the Norton Anthology of Poetry; and there is a substantial `Suggestions for Further Reading' section. Designed particularly for A-level and undergraduate students facing exams in Practical Criticism, The Poetry Handbook will fascinate and rewardanyone interested in how poems work.

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John Lennard, Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

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