The Poetry Toolkit For Readers and Writers
ISBN: 9781405195782 | 1405195789
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 3/12/2012
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This ingenious guide provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read, understand, and write poetry. The elements of this important literary form - from story, character, idea and sentiment to diction, prosody, and graphic layout - are presented in an accessible and student-friendly manner, and readers and writers of all levels will benefit from the thoughtful insights and commonsense guidance provided by the author, who is both an accomplished scholar and practicing poet. The Toolkit draws on examples fro... MORE
Preface vii
Key to Symbols xv
1 The Arts of Story-Telling 1
2 The Arts of Character 40
3 The Arts of Sentiment: States of Mind and Feeling 65
4 The Arts of Diction 82
5 The Arts of Sound 109
Appendix A: Simplified Phonetic Alphabet 133
Appendix B: Summary of Prosody 133
6 The Arts of Layout 139
7 The Arts of Reaction 158
Glossary 177
Suggestions for Reading: A Biased Bibliography 217
Acknowledgments 225
Index 227
William Harmon is the James Gordon Hanes Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. Now retired, Harmon is the editor of A Handbook to Literature, now in its 12th edition, and has published five books of original poetry and received various awards, including the Robert B. Heilman Award given by The Sewanee Review for excellence in book reviewing.
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