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The Poetry Toolkit: The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry de Dr Rhian Williams

The Poetry Toolkit: The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry

Autor Dr Rhian Williams
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 feb 2019
Now thoroughly revamped with a diverse selection of poetic voices from the last fifty years, this third edition of Rhian Williams's bestselling book, The Poetry Toolkit guides readers through key terms, genres and concepts that help them to develop a richer, more sophisticated approach to reading, thinking and writing about poetry. Combining an easy-to-use reference format with in-depth practice readings and further exercises, the book helps students master the study of poetry for themselves.

As well as featuring more contemporary voices, the 3rd edition of The Poetry Toolkit includes an expanded practical section giving guidance on close reading, comparative reading and advice on writing critically about poetry. In addition, the book is accompanied by a companion website offering audio recordings of poetry readings, weblinks and overviews of key theoretical approaches to support advanced study. Head to bloomsbury.com/Williams-the-poetry-toolkit for a host of additional resources.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350032217
ISBN-10: 1350032212
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:3
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Copyright Acknowledgements
Preface to the Third Edition

Part I: Introducing Poetry
Introduction
How to Use This Book
1. Types and Traditions

Part II: Technical Vocabulary
2. Form
2.1 Variable Forms
2.2 Fixed Forms
2.3 Visual Forms
2.4 Hybrid Forms
2.5 'Formless' Forms
3. Prosody
3.1 Stress
3.2 Metre
3.3 Feet
3.4 Metrical Lines
4. Rhyme
4.1 Perfect Rhymes
4.2 Imperfect Rhymes
4.3 Sight and Sound Effects
4.4 Rhyme Schemes
5. Stanza
5.1 One-line Stanzas and Refrains
5.2 Two-line Stanzas (Couplets)
5.3 Three-line Stanzas (Tercets)
5.4 Four-line Stanzas (Quatrains)
6. Wordplay
6.1 Tropes
6.2 Schemes

Part III: Practical
7. Close Readings
8. Comparisons
9. Suggested Exercises
10. Writing About Poetry

Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
Guide to the Companion Website
Index

Recenzii

This is an inspirational guide to studying poetry, exciting for beginners and experienced readers alike. A tour de force of succinctness, clarity, and adroit cross referencing, it is not only a tour through every conceivable feature a reader could need - from the sonnet form to synloepha, from sesta rima to syllepsis - but an imaginative and arresting exposition of the way poets have used them, whether Dante or David Jones, Sappho or E E Cummings, Milton or Deryn Rees-Jones. Rhian Williams aims to set readers free by building confidence with genre and form, metre and rhyme, demystifying technicalities and terminology, providing follow up reading, and appealing to curiosity and the sense of experiment. She urges readers to read poems aloud, to listen to sounds, mark rhythms, and imagine themselves inside the poem before moving out to its history and context. After reading this book newcomers to poetry will learn to love reading and writing about it.
Whether you're a new-comer to poetry or a longtime reader, Rhian Williams' The Poetry Toolkit offers welcomed guidance. The book ranges from the introductory (what does "stress" mean?) to the sophisticated and complex. Throughout, the author provides clear frameworks for interpreting how poetry's formal structures participate in the work of meaning-making. This book will relieve students' anxiety and deepen their understanding.
The Poetry Toolkit will be a valued for many readers, both academic and 'general'. Every reader will learn something from it - it is rare to have riches such as this in a single textbook.
How does one get started in the world of poetry, either as the consumer or the producer? The Poetry Toolkit: the Essential Guide to Studying Poetry hopes to educate and inspire readers to better understand the world of poetry. Chapters cover the eccentricities of truly understanding poetry from a reader's perspective. Packed with advice and tips for poetry appreciation, The Poetry Toolkit is an intriguing introductory dive in the world of the poet. The Poetry Toolkit is just what some people need to break that daunting poetry wall.
The Poetry Toolkit conveys Williams's genuine enthusiasm for the genre's expressive and descriptive possibilities - an excitement that the volume's accessible style and layout make it easy for students to share. I have tried many "introduction to poetry" volumes during the ten-plus years I've been teaching such classes; in The Poetry Toolkit, I've finally found one that I happily foresee using for many years to come.

Caracteristici

Now supported by an extensive new companion website offering audio and video poetry readings and short guides to poetry and theory to guide students to more advances study

Notă biografică

Rhian Williams is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK.