A Poet's Guide to Poetry - Couverture souple

Kinzie, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226437396 ISBN 13 : 9780226437392

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, Mary Kinzie shows in this text how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. The three parts of this book lead the reader through an introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through to the most devious. Part one presents the style, grammar and rhetoric of poems with examples from various literary periods. Part two discusses how elements of a poem are controlled in time through a careful explanation and explorations of meter and rhythm. Also examined here are the "four freedoms" of free verse. Part three closes the book with practicum chapters on writing form. Included here are: writing exercises for both novice as well as advanced writers; a dictionary of poetic terms with poetry examples; and an annotated bibliography for further explanatory reading.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In A Poet’s Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie brings her decades of expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie also shares her own successful classroom tactics that encourage readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional.
The three parts of A Poet’s Guide to Poetry lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through the most subtle. The second part carefully examines meter and rhythm, as well as providing a theoretical and practical overview of free verse. The final section offers helpful chapters on writing in form. Rounding out the volume are writing exercises for beginning and advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms, and a bibliography of further reading.
For this new edition, Kinzie has carefully reworked the introductory material and first chapter, as well as amended the annotated bibliography to include the most recent works of criticism. The updated guide also contains revised exercises and adjustments throughout the text to make the work as lucid and accessible as possible.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mary Kinzie is a poet and critic.  She is professor of English and director of creative writing at Northwestern University, where she teaches poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.  She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and the Folger Shakespeare Library’s O. B. Hardison Poetry Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226437396
• ISBN 13: 9780226437392
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible