The Language and Poetry of Flowers
Title | The Language and Poetry of Flowers PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Gardiner Adams |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1858 |
Genre | Flower language |
ISBN |
Poetry and Language
Title | Poetry and Language PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ferber |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2019-09-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1108429122 |
An accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language that tackles a wide range of poetic features from a linguistic point of view. Equally appealing to the non-expert and more experienced student of linguistics, this book delivers an engaging and often witty summary of how we define what poetry is.
Fern Hill
Title | Fern Hill PDF eBook |
Author | Dylan Thomas |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Poetry For Dummies
Title | Poetry For Dummies PDF eBook |
Author | The Poetry Center |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2011-03-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781118053645 |
Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St. Augustine called it “the Devil’s wine.” For Shelley, poetry was “the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” But no matter how you define it, poetry has exercised a hold upon the hearts and minds of people for more than five millennia. That’s because for the attentive reader, poetry has the power to send chills shooting down the spine and lightning bolts flashing in the brain — to throw open the doors of perception and hone our sensibilities to a scalpel’s edge. Poetry For Dummies is a great guide to reading and writing poems, not only for beginners, but for anyone interested in verse. From Homer to Basho, Chaucer to Rumi, Shelley to Ginsberg, it introduces you to poetry’s greatest practitioners. It arms you with the tools you need to understand and appreciate poetry in all its forms, and to explore your own talent as a poet. Discover how to: Understand poetic language and forms Interpret poems Get a handle on poetry through the ages Find poetry readings near you Write your own poems Shop your work around to publishers Don’t know the difference between an iamb and a trochee? Worry not, this friendly guide demystifies the jargon, and it covers a lot more ground besides, including: Understanding subject, tone, narrative; and poetic language Mastering the three steps to interpretation Facing the challenges of older poetry Exploring 5,000 years of verse, from Mesopotamia to the global village Writing open-form poetry Working with traditional forms of verse Writing exercises for aspiring poets Getting published From Sappho to Clark Coolidge, and just about everyone in between, Poetry For Dummies puts you in touch with the greats of modern and ancient poetry. Need guidance on composing a ghazal, a tanka, a sestina, or a psalm? This is the book for you.
The Language of Poetry
Title | The Language of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | John McRae |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780415169288 |
This accessible textbook is unique in offering students hands-on, practical experience of textual analysis focused on poetry. It combines activities with texts, commentaries and further activity suggestions.
Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry
Title | Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard O'Donoghue |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 211 |
Release | 2017-09-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1315504871 |
This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on the appropriate language of poetry. Chapters also look at Heaney's language and at the government of the tongue.
The Language of Inquiry
Title | The Language of Inquiry PDF eBook |
Author | Lyn Hejinian |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 449 |
Release | 2000-12-27 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0520922271 |
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address. Central to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential "Two Stein Talks," as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings.