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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... mind . For instance , the Italian poet Petrarch devoted a humongous number of sonnets to his love for someone named Laura , and in his more mature poetry , English poet John Milton sincerely sought to “ justify the ways of God to man ...
... mind ; this is just an exercise . So much for fun and games . It's time now to get seri- ous . Below is a passage from Paradise Lost by John Milton ( 1608-1674 ) in which he encapsulated Satan's descent from Heaven to Hell . By the way ...
... mind of his own . One poem “ La Cluza ” : of his that has stuck in my mind for ever so long is titled Evening is a shift in weight . Mountains grow harder . Skiers , at last , have only to descend on final runs . They leave so little ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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