Poetic Form - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Michael D. Hurley combines a wide and interdisciplinary record of publishing in poetry and poetics with considerable experience as a teacher of close reading and practical criticism at Cambridge. His work is marked by an ambition to explore the relationship between what literature makes us feel and how it makes us think. His recent book on G. K. Chesterton was praised by one critic for being 'striking in the precision of its formal analysis and the elegance of its prose'. Klappentext This work provides lucid, elegant and original analyses of poetic form and its workings in a wide range of poems. Zusammenfassung This book takes the reader on a journey of discovery into the nature and history of poetry as it looks at poetic form in an array of poems from Old English to the present! including dramatic poetry such as Marlowe! Shakespeare and Yeats. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The elements of poetic form; 2. Lyric; 3. The sonnet; 4. Elegy; 5. Epic; 6. Soliloquy; 7. Dramatic monologue; 8. Ballad and narrative.

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• Authors: &apos, Michael D. Hurley, Michael D. (St Catharine's College Hurley, Michael D. (St Catharine''s College Hurley, Michael D. O&apos Hurley, Michael D. O''neill Hurley, HURLEY MICHAEL D, Michael Neill, Michael O'Neill, Michael (University of Durham) O'Neill
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2012
• EAN: 9780521772945
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77294-5
• No. of pages: 253
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies