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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... poet or be a better poet than you are at present - that is , beyond a persistent yearning to ? Well , first of all , regardless of your age or the stage you're at in life , you're going to have to decide on who you want to be or are as ...
... 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 . " Sounding out our three guest poets ...
... poet , giving details that you think would be of interest to the person on the other end , including your friendships with one or more of their other poets , if such happens to be the case ; avoid extraneous things like your hobbies and ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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