Invitation to poetry :the pleasures of studying poetry and poetics
For anyone who has ever wanted to become fluent in the language of poetry, "Invitation to Poetry" will prove an essential guide. This book: teaches the serious student how to 'speak poetry' through an in-depth examination of the traditional features and technical vocabulary of poetic language; examines British and American materials from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in order to give students a sense of a range of different period styles, poetic projects, and strategies; explicitly examines, questions and challenges the relationship of poetry to literary periods and canons; and, offers the technical tools essential for close reading and interpretation across a broad chronological spectrum.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Malden; Oxford
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Blackwell
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 238 p. ; 23 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Text of Note
ISBN)pbk. : alk. paper(: 9781405131643
Text of Note
ISBN)hardcover : alk. paper(: 9781405131636
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Text of Note
Lisa M. Steinman
ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE
Text of Note
1
Text of Note
2
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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