Poetic Form - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Michael D. Hurley teaches English Literature at the University of Cambridge, where he is a University Lecturer and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of G. K. Chesterton (2012), co-author (with Michael O'Neill) of Poetic Form (2012), editor of the new Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Father Brown Stories, and co-editor (with Marcus Waithe) of Thinking Through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century (2017). Klappentext Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction that will be of help to undergraduates and more advanced readers of poetry alike. The book sees form as neither ornamenting nor mimicking content, but as shaping and animating it, encouraging readers to cultivate techniques to read poems as poems. Lively and wide-ranging, engaging with poems as aesthetic experiences, the book includes a long chapter on the elements of form that throws new light on troubling terms such as rhythm and metre, as well as a detailed introduction and accessible, stimulating chapters on lyric, the sonnet, elegy, soliloquy, dramatic monologue and ballad and narrative. 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