The Pleasure of Poetry: Reading and Enjoying British Poetry from Donne to Burns
From Donne and Jonson, to Pope, Swift, and Burns, the book offers excerpts of the poetry these artists crafted, and carefully examines the various attributes that have helped to establish them as some of the greatest of all time. Writing in clear, accessible language, Nelson also introduces general poetry terms to the novice, providing examples and explanations where necessary. Readers will no longer feel intimidated by difficult poetry. Instead, they will walk away with the tools they need to read, understand, and appreciate these titans of British letters. |
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The sixline stanza provides a firm framework within which Donne treats his ideas and images with relative simplicity , yet still with originality , economy , and flair . We have seen that the last two lines make a kind of refrain ...
Once again in this poem Jonson employs the heroic couplet with force and conviction , using a combination of metaphor , classical allusion , and direct statement of his ideas to carry his message . He did much to establish the heroic ...
This is his ability to compose poems in which the discussion of ideas is central to the poem's subject . Dryden wrote it to explain and justify his faith in the Anglican Church , the national religion , to the public at a time when the ...
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Introduction to Reading Poetry | 1 |
Poet of Secular and Sacred Love | 19 |
Elegist Satirist and Moralist | 37 |
Urheberrecht | |
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The Pleasure of Poetry: Reading and Enjoying British Poetry from Donne to Burns Nicolas H. Nelson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2006 |