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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... sort of " and such like , which can produce unintended awkwardness and even amusement - for ex- ample , " they were sort of married " ; " he was sort of dead . " Adjectives , with and without qualifying adverbs , are not the only parts ...
... sort of thing . Just mosey on over to Lewis Turco's tome , where you'll find an exhausting list of same with descriptions . Poems of this type were much beloved by Victorians like Algernon Charles Swinburne and Austin Dobson , and ...
... sort of thing , and nowadays , thanks largely to computers , there are any number of things one can do with respect to com- bining text and graphics . Just for fun — Exercise 4 Take one of your poems or a short piece of prose and select ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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