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Informationen zum Autor William Harmon is the James Gordon Hanes Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. Now retired, Harmon is the editor of A Handbook to Literature , now in its 12th edition, and has published five books of original poetry and received various awards, including the Robert B. Heilman Award given by The Sewanee Review for excellence in book reviewing. Klappentext This ingenious guide provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read, understand, and write poetry. The elements of this important literary form - from story, character, idea, and sentiment to diction, prosody, and graphic layout - are presented in an accessible and student-friendly manner, and readers and writers of all levels will benefit from the thoughtful insights and commonsense guidance provided by the author, who is both an accomplished scholar and practicing poet. The Toolkit draws on examples from a range of poets from more than 1,500 years of English literature to encourage students and general readers to think critically about poetic writing. The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides the confidence to read, write, and gain a richer appreciation of the artistry and pleasures of the poetic form. Zusammenfassung The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read! understand! and write poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vii Key to Symbols xv 1 The Arts of Story-Telling 1 2 The Arts of Character 40 3 The Arts of Sentiment: States of Mind and Feeling 65 4 The Arts of Diction 82 5 The Arts of Sound 109 Appendix A: Simplified Phonetic Alphabet 133 Appendix B: Summary of Prosody 133 6 The Arts of Layout 139 7 The Arts of Reaction 158 Glossary 177 Suggestions for Reading: A Biased Bibliography 217 Acknowledgments 225 Index 227 ...
