Invitation to Poetry: The Pleasures of Studying Poetry and Poetics

ISBN-13: 9781405131643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str.

Lisa Malinowski Steinman

Opis

For anyone who has ever wanted to become fluent in the language of poetry, Invitation to Poetry will prove an essential guide. This book:

* Teaches the serious student how to 'speak poetry' through an in-depth examination of the traditional features and technical vocabulary of poetic language;

* Examines British and American materials from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in order to give students a sense of a range of different period styles, poetic projects, and strategies;

* Explicitly examines, questions and challenges the relationship of poetry to literary periods and canons;

* Offers the technical tools essential for close reading and interpretation across a broad chronological spectrum.

Recenzje

One could not find a better guide than Steinman (Reed College) for developing a sound approach to reading poems. This eclecticism in examples proves to readers how a rigorous approach to reading can allow one to tackle a variety of texts from different eras. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book is best suited to those embarking on literary studies or creative writing, particularly poetry. Highly recommended. ( Choice Reviews, October 2008)

Spis treści

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Conceptual Syntax: An Introduction to the Way Poems Invite Different Approaches and Position Readers.

2. Speaking Poetry: Night Pieces and Intertextual Conversations.

3. The Gestures and Subjects of the Sonnet.

4. The Uses of Meter and Rhythm in the Sonnet.

5. The Form of the Voice: Tone and Diction.

6. Modes, Odes, and Odic Gestures.

7. What is Pastoral?.

8. Traditions, Legacies, and Individual Talents.

9. Forests and Trees, or Playing with Poems.

Index

O autorze

Lisa M. Steinman is the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. A practicing poet, she has also written two highly regarded books on poetry: Masters of Repetition: Poetry, Culture, and Work in Thomson, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Emerson (1998) and Made In America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets (1989). Her work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Rockefeller Foundation.