Invitation to Poetry The Pleasures of

In today's world poetry is often regarded as particularly impenetrable, written in obscure and willfully difficult language: Invitation to Poetry opens the door to this rich art form, and teaches the serious student and the novice alike how to 'speak poetry'.

Lisa M. Steinman is the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. A practicing poet, she has also written two highly regarded books on poetry: Masters of Repetition: Poetry, Culture, and Work in Thomson, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Emerson (1998) and Made In America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets (1989). Her work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Rockefeller Foundation.

Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. x
Conceptual Syntax: An Introduction to the Way Poems Invite Different Approaches and Position Readers	p. 1
Speaking Poetry: Night Pieces and Intertextual Conversations	p. 20
The Gestures and Subjects of the Sonnet	p. 59
The Uses of Meter and Rhythm in the Sonnet	p. 89
The Form of the Voice: Tone and Diction	p. 122
Modes, Odes, and Odic Gestures	p. 144
What is Pastoral?	p. 176
Traditions, Legacies, and Individual Talents	p. 203
Forests and Trees, or Playing with Poems	p. 225
Index	p. 233
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