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Invitation to Poetry: The Pleasures of Studying Poetry and Poetics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405131643)
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xFor 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;
* Offers the technical tools essential for close reading and interpretation across a broad chronological spectrum.
Author: Lisa M. Steinman
ISBN-10: 1405131640
ISBN-13: 9781405131643
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.37w x 0.80d
* 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;
* Offers the technical tools essential for close reading and interpretation across a broad chronological spectrum.
Author: Lisa M. Steinman
ISBN-10: 1405131640
ISBN-13: 9781405131643
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.37w x 0.80d
By Lisa M. Steinman
xLisa M. Steinman is the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. A practicing poet, she has also written two highly regarded books on poetry: Masters of Repetition: Poetry, Culture, and Work in Thomson, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Emerson (1998) and Made In America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets (1989). Her work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Rockefeller Foundation.
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