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The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism Book

John Lennard subtitled his Poetry Handbook, "A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism," and it's an apt description. The book covers meter and layout, rhyme and syntax, with poetic examples that whet the appetite for verse. Written with evident love for and knowledge of the subject, the handbook is a requisite reference for students of poetry and an inspirational refresher for anyone who's ever thrilled to the cadences of trochaic tetrameter, duples, and rising rhythms.Read More

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    Have you ever wondered what makes a sonnet a sonnet when one hundred different sonnetteers, or even a single poet, use one hundred different rhyme schemes; or, maybe, you want to know how a poet can get away with rhyming "transparent" with "errand" or "work" with "week?" Whether you are deconstructing a poem from such required texts as the Oxford Anthology of English Literature and the Norton Anthology of Poetry or leafing through your dog-eared Palgrave's Golden Treasury, The Poetry Handbook offers a lucid and practical guide to the poet's craft. In addition to the varied examples that accompany chapters on meter, form, layout, lineation, punctuation, rhyme, diction, syntax, history, biography, and gender, at the end of every chapter, Lennard applies each topic to the same poem, Nobel Prize-winner Derek Walcott's "Nearing Forty," building, incrementally, a full technical reading. Lennard italicizes and clearly explains critical and scholarly terms, both in the text and in glossaries. He supplements notes and quotation with detailed reference to both the Oxford and Norton anthologies, and includes substantial Suggestions for Further Reading. Designed with the undergraduate as well as the general reader in mind, The Poetry Handbook will fascinate and reward anyone interested in how poems work.

  • 0198711492
  • 9780198711490
  • John Lennard
  • 1 August 1996
  • Oxford University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
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