Be a PoetTwickenham Press, 2007 - 420 Seiten Originally published in 2007 by Twickenham Press, Be a Poet! is a friendly, accessible guidebook for beginning poets of all ages and situations, containing many exercises designed to expand their repertoire of rhythms and forms. Bogen uses examples from canonical poets like Carl Sandburg and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as three contemporary poets whom she has interviewed personally about their writing habits and tricks. This handbook for the poetically inclined includes in-depth coverage of words and how to use them effectively, plus chapters on rhyming, rhythm, the iamb from blank verse to the various forms of the sonnet, and exotica like art songs, Pindaric and Horatian odes, and terza rima. Its concluding appendix listing addresses of writers' organizations is especially useful. |
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... green coat nervously consulted his rare , gold timepiece – the phrase “ in the green coat " is descriptive 80 Be a Poet !
... green hue , and lose themselves ' Mid groves and copses . Once again I see These hedge - rows , hardly hedge - rows , little lines Of sportive wood run wild : these pastoral farms , Green to the very door ; and wreaths of smoke Sent up ...
... green sour ringlets make , Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms , that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid , Weak masters though ye be , I have bedimm'd The noontide sun , call'd ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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