The Ode Less Travelled - 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 The Ode Less Travelled write by Stephen Fry. This book was released on 2006-08-17. The Ode Less Travelled available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comedian and actor Stephen Fry's witty and practical guide, now in paperback, gives the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry. Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. In The Ode Less Travelled, he invites readers to discover the delights of writing poetry for pleasure and provides the tools and confidence to get started. Through enjoyable exercises, witty insights, and simple step-by-step advice, Fry introduces the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics. Most of us have never been taught to read or write poetry, and so it can seem mysterious and intimidating. But Fry, a wonderfully competent, engaging teacher and a writer of poetry himself, sets out to correct this problem by explaining the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. Fry's method works, and his enthusiasm is contagious as he explores different forms of poetry: the haiku, the ballad, the villanelle, and the sonnet, among many others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we've heard of but never read. The Ode Less Travelled is not just the survey course you never took in college, it's a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try.
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 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.’
Coming of Age as a Poet
Coming of Age as a Poet - 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 Coming of Age as a Poet write by Helen Vendler. This book was released on 2003. Coming of Age as a Poet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind - 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 Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind write by Jonathan Bate. This book was released on 2016-01-14. Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry.
The Sounds of Poetry
The Sounds of 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 The Sounds of Poetry write by Robert Pinsky. This book was released on 2014-08-19. The Sounds of Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing." As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America's best spokesmen for poetry. In this fascinating book, he explains how poets use the "technology" of poetry--its sounds--to create works of art that are "performed" in us when we read them aloud. He devotes brief, informative chapters to accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets--from Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to W. C. Williams, Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, C. K. Williams, Louise Glück, and Frank Bidart. This ideal introductory volume belongs in the library of every poet and student of poetry.
