An introduction to English poetry
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- ISBN: 0374104646
- ISBN: 0374528896
- Physical Description 137 pages
- Edition 1st American ed.
- Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
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General Note: | Includes index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 29.95 |
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An Introduction to English Poetry
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Table of Contents
An Introduction to English Poetry
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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1 | The History and Scope of English Poetry | p. 1 |
2 | Where Music and Poetry Divide | p. 10 |
3 | The Training of the Poet | p. 16 |
4 | The Sense of Form | p. 22 |
5 | The Iambic Pentameter | p. 26 |
6 | Variations in the Line | p. 32 |
7 | Patterns of Stress | p. 36 |
8 | Mysteries of the Trochee | p. 39 |
9 | The Genius of the Trochee | p. 43 |
10 | The Shorter Lines | p. 48 |
11 | The Iambic Tetrameter | p. 53 |
12 | The Longer Lines | p. 56 |
13 | The Shorter Stanza | p. 61 |
14 | The Longer Stanza | p. 71 |
15 | The Sonnet | p. 77 |
16 | Minor Forms | p. 82 |
17 | Rhyme | p. 93 |
18 | Syllabics | p. 99 |
19 | Free Verse | p. 102 |
20 | Writing for the Eye | p. 108 |
21 | Song | p. 115 |
22 | Poetic Drama and Opera | p. 122 |
Glossary | p. 126 | |
Index | p. 133 |