Be a PoetOriginally published in 2007 by Twickenham Press, Be a Poet! is a friendly, accessible guidebook for beginning poets of all ages and situations, containing many exercises designed to expand their repertoire of rhythms and forms. Bogen uses examples from canonical poets like Carl Sandburg and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as three contemporary poets whom she has interviewed personally about their writing habits and tricks. This handbook for the poetically inclined includes in-depth coverage of words and how to use them effectively, plus chapters on rhyming, rhythm, the iamb from blank verse to the various forms of the sonnet, and exotica like art songs, Pindaric and Horatian odes, and terza rima. Its concluding appendix listing addresses of writers' organizations is especially useful. |
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... poetic terminology alone , the best of which seem to be Paul Fussell's Poetic Meter and Poetic Form and Joseph Malof's Manual of English Meters . Your little library of essential books should also in- clude at least one anthology of ...
... , Paul , Jr. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form . NY : Random House , 1979 . Harmon , William , and Hugh Holman . A Handbook to Literature . NY : MacMillan , 1986 . Kirby - Smith , H.T. The Origins of Free Verse 397 Bibliography.
... poetic devices such as meter , simile , etc. Includes descriptions and examples of classic and contemporary poetic forms as well as , including the ode , sonnet , and ballad . Excellent resource for more advanced students or teachers ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Copyright | |
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