Overview
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.
- | Author: Lisa M. Steinman
- | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- | Publication Date: Jan 03, 2008
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1405131632
- | ISBN-13: 9781405131636
