Poetic Designs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetic Designs write by Stephen Adams. This book was released on 1997-04-07. Poetic Designs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There are numerous introductions to poetry and prosody available, but none at once so comprehensive and so accessible as this. With the increasing emphasis on free verse, the past generation has developed a widespread impression that the study of poetic meter is old fashioned—or even that form ‘doesn’t matter’ in poetry. It is an impression that has not been dispelled by the emphasis of some of the existing texts in the area on forms that are now rare or outmoded. The irony is that simultaneously in the past decade interest in formal matters among many poets and literary scholars has been on the increase; the reality is that prosody is today on the cutting edge of literary studies. Stephen Adams’ text provides a full treatment of traditional topics, from the iambic pentameter through other accentual-syllabic rhythms (trochaic, dactylic and so on) and covering as well other metrical types, stanza structure, the sonnet and other standard forms. Adams also includes a variety of topics not covered in most other introductions to the topic; perhaps most significantly, he provides a full chapter on form in free verse. Moreover, he treats rhyme extensively and includes a comprehensive chapter on literary figures. Poetic Designs is thus much more that an introduction to prosody; it is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the nature of poetry in English. It is a book for the general reader and the aspiring writer as well as for the student, a book intended (in the words of the author) to help ‘heighten the experience of poetry.’
Anodyne
Anodyne - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anodyne write by Khadijah Queen. This book was released on 2020-08-18. Anodyne available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colorado Book Awards Finalist for Poetry Shortlisted for the Reading the West Poetry Book Award The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us to recognize the echoes of history that litter the landscape of our bodies as we navigate a complex terrain of survival and longing. With an intimate and multivocal dexterity, these poems acknowledge the simultaneous existence of joy and devastation, knowledge and ignorance, grief and love, endurance and failure—all of the contrast and serendipity that comes with the experience of being human. If the body is a world, or a metaphor for the world, for what disappears and what remains, for what we feel and what we cover up, then how do we balance fate and choice, pleasure and pain? Through a combination of formal lyrics, delicate experiments, sharp rants, musical litany, and moments of wit that uplift and unsettle, Queen’s poems show us the terrible consequences and stunning miracles of how we choose to live.
Formular Language and Poetic Design in the Aeneid
Formular Language and Poetic Design in the Aeneid - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Formular Language and Poetic Design in the Aeneid write by Moskalew. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Formular Language and Poetic Design in the Aeneid available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Preliminary Material /Walter Moskalew -- Introduction /Walter Moskalew -- Repetition, Genre, and Style /Walter Moskalew -- Design and Texture /Walter Moskalew -- Patterns of Association /Walter Moskalew -- List of Repetitions /Walter Moskalew -- Bibliography /Walter Moskalew -- Index Locorum /Walter Moskalew.
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry write by Isabel Rivers. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.
Poetic Designs
Poetic Designs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetic Designs write by Steve Twelvetree. This book was released on 2004-05-01. Poetic Designs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
