Invitation to poetry the pleasures of studying poetry and poetics
Lisa M. Steinman.
Malden, MA
Blackwell Pub.
2008
xi, 238 p. 23 cm
the pleasures of studying poetry and poetics
English poetry
American poetry
Poetry
Poetics
PR
504
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5
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S74
2008
Steinman, Lisa Malinowski,1950-
Includes bibliographical references and index
Conceptual syntax: an introduction to the way poems invite different approaches and position readers -- Speaking poetry: night pieces and intertextual conversations -- The gestures and subjects of the sonnet -- The uses of meter and rhythm in the sonnet -- The form of the voice: tone and diction -- Modes, odes, and odic gestures -- What is pastoral? -- Traditions, legacies, and individual talents -- Forests and trees, or playing with poems