A poet's guide to poetry

Author:Mary Kinzie

Summary:Looks at examples of poetry ranging from medieval to modern, discusses style and mode, and provides exercises for beginning and advanced writers

Print Book, English, 1999

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1999

Series:

Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing

Physical Description:ix, 561 Seiten ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9780226437385, 9780226437392, 0226437388, 0226437396

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:245939793

Contents:

A Note on Sources

Introduction: The Enchantment of the Work

(12)

1 Writing the Poem You Read: A View of Artistic Process

(32)

Part I The Elements of Relation and Resemblance

(170)

2 Line and Half-Meaning

(24)

3 Syntax and Whole Meaning

(36)

4 Diction and Layers in Meaning

111

(31)

5 Trope and Thought

142

(45)

6 Rhetoric and Speech

187

(25)

7 Rhythm as Combination

212

(3)

Part II The Elements, Controlled in Time

215

(130)

8 Accentual-Syllabic Meter: The Role of Stress and Interval

217

(45)

9 Stanza and Rhyme: The Role of Echo

262

(28)

10 Further Rhythms in English--Counted Forms: Accentual Verse and Syllabic Verse (including Haiku)

290

(40)

11 Further Rhythms in English--Non-Counted Forms: The Four Freedoms of Free Verse

330

(15)

Part III Writing in Form

345

(158)

12 Exercises for Beginning and Advanced Writers

347

(33)

13 Poetic Terms

380

(103)

14 Annotated Bibliography of Further Reading

483

(20)

List of Poems by Form

503

(5)

Author and Title Index

508

(9)

Subject Index

517

(41)

Credits

558

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