Invitation to Poetry The Pleasures of Studying Poetry and Poetics

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ISBN: 9781405131643 | 1405131640
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/3/2008

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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'.

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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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Invitation to Poetry The Pleasures of Studying Poetry and Poetics

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