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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... sonnet The word , like the form , comes from the Italian word sonetto and ultimately from the Latin sonus , both meaning " sound . " There are two major versions of the sonnet in English , the Italian or Petrarchan , after the ...
... sonnet before our very eyes . ITALIAN OR PETRARCHAN Sonnet The fourteenth - century Italian poet Petrarch composed a series of sonnets ( or a sonnet sequence , as we'd say ) to cel- ebrate his love for a woman named Laura , and largely ...
... Sonnet number 28 : 220 Sonnet number 72 : 218 , 222-223 The Tempest ( " Ye elves of hills ... my book " ) 135-136 ; “ Full fathom five " 150 The Two Gentlemen from Verona : " Who is Sylvia " 236 SHELLEY , PERCY BYSSHE 170 , 232 , 264 ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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