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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... never - never land of Milton's imagination : .Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th ' 26 Be a Poet !
... never look upon thee more , Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love ; then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone , and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink . Begin , as with the passage from ...
... never really recov- ered — with a single notable exception , this one by John Keats ( 1795-1821 ) some two centuries ... never live to trace Their shadows , with the magic hand of chance ; And when I feel , fair creature of an hour ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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