Barry Reading poetry

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1177-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry ‘at work’ in poems

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barry, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘One small step’
READING THE LINES

1. Meaning

2. Imagery

3. Diction

4. Metre

5. Form

READING BETWEEN THE LINES
6. Close and distant reading

7. Feeling and sentiment

8. Text and context

9. Poems and pictures

10. Sequences and clusters

READING BEYOND THE LINES
11. Place and time

12. Poetry with theory

13. Minimalism and micro-poetry

14. Concrete canticles

15. Textual genesis

End-note
List of poems discussed

Glossary

Further reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barry Peter:

Peter Barry is Professor of English at the University of Wales, AberystwythPeter Barry is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University