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Author Mayes, Frances.

Title The discovery of poetry : a field guide to reading and writing poems / Frances Mayes.

Imprint San Diego : Harcourt, 2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  808.1 M453d 2001    ---  Available
Edition 1st Harvest ed.
Description xviii, 494 pages ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note "A Harvest original."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-481) and indexes.
Contents 1. Sources and Approaches 1 -- 2. Words: Texture and Sound 24 -- 3. Images: The Perceptual Field 64 -- 4. The Speaker: The Eye of the Poem 132 -- 5. Rhyme and Repetition 158 -- 6. Meter: The Measured Flow 207 -- 7. Free Verse 255 -- 8. Traditional and Open Forms 287 -- 9. Subject and Style 346 -- 10. Interpretation: The Wide Response 402 -- 11. A Poet's Handbook 457.
Summary Beginning with basic terminology and techniques, Mayes shows how focusing on one aspect of a poem can help you to better understand, appreciate, and enjoy the reading and writing experience.
Subject Poetics.
English poetry -- Appreciation.
American poetry -- Appreciation.
English poetry -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- History and criticism.
Literature -- Philosophy.
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
American poetry -- Appreciation. (OCoLC)fst00807352
English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
English poetry -- Appreciation. (OCoLC)fst00912280
Poetics. (OCoLC)fst01067682
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
ISBN 0156007622
9780156007627

 
    
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