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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... hath brought many captives home to Rome , Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill . Did this in Caesar seem ambitious ? When that the poor have cried , Caesar hath wept ; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff . Yet Brutus says he ...
... hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes , and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne , And smale foweles maken melodye , That slepen al the nyght with open ye ( So priketh hem nature in hir corages ) : Thanne ...
... hath in her own natural kind , And , even with something of a Mother's mind , And no unworthy aim , The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster - child , her Inmate Man , Forget the glories he hath known , And that imperial ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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