Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry

Revised
ISBN: 978-0-07-281959-5
Verlag: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Buch, Englisch, 688 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 1198 g

WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mason, David

Nims, John Frederick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

*- indicates selection or author is new to this editionPREFACEBefore We BeginPart One: The Senses1. WHERE EXPERIENCE STARTS: The ImageThe Role of the Senses*Jim Moore The Same LifeAnonymous Western WindArchibald Macleish ElevenSappho There's A ManT.S. Eliot PreludesAnonymous Brief AutumnalThe Specific ImageEzra Pound In A Station Of The Metro Alba ("As cool as the pale wet leaves.")Anthony Hecht The End Of The WeekendAnonymous Sir Patrick SpensExercises and DiversionsBrewester Ghiselin Rattler, AlertSappho Leaving Crete, Come Visit AgainEssay and Poem*Jim Moore Haiku/Touch2. WHAT'S IT LIKE? Simile, Metaphor and Other FiguresSimile and MetaphorRobinson Jeffers The Purse-SeineRobert Frost The Silken TentEmily Dickinson My Life Had Stood--A Loaded GunLinda Pastan ReturningMargaret Atwood HabitationWilliam Butler Yeats No Second TroyRobert Frost A Patch Of Old Snow*Al Young Up Vernon's AlleyHelen Chasin City PigeonsAnalogyWalter de la Mare All But BlindSynesthesia AllusionAlexander Pope Intended For Sir Isaac Newton*Michael Donaghy Local 32BPersonfication, MythologyKarl Shapiro A Cut FlowerWilliam Butler Yeats Leda And The SwanWalter Savage Landor DirceExercises and DiversionsAlan Shapiro Against PoetsEssays and Poems3. SYMBOLISM: The Broken Coin Synecdoche, Metonymy*Mary Jo Salter A Poetics of SexThe SymbolHoward Nemerov Money*Jenn Habel Another Poem About the HeartGeorge Herbert HopeWilliam Blake The Sick RoseRobert Frost Acquainted With The NightSaint John Of The Cross The Dark NightThing-PoemsRainer Maria Rilke The Merry-Go-RoundWilliam Carlos Williams Nantucket*Frank O'Hara Why I am Not a PainterAllegorySir Thomas Wyatt My Galley Charged with ForgetfulnessKingsley Amis A Note on WyattBilly Collins The Death of AllegoryExercises and DiversionsJohn Crowe Ransom Good ShipsCarl Sandburg A FenceEssays and Poems4. DOUBLE VISION: Antipoetry, Paradox, and IronyAntipoetryWilliam Shakespeare WinterFrancis P. Osgood Winter Fairyland In VermontElizabeth Bishop Filling StationWalt Whitman BeautyWilliam Shakespeare Sonnet 130ParadoxRobert Graves The Face in the MirrorAlexander Pope From An Essay on ManIrony*Wilfred Owen The Parable of the Old Man and the YoungUnderstatement--The Withheld ImageSimonides On the Spartan Dead at ThermopylaeX.J. Kennedy Loose WomanOverstatementRobert Graves SpoilsExercises and DiversionsRod Taylor Dakota: October, 1822: Hunkpapa WarriorWallace Stevens The Emperor Of Ice-CreamEssays and PoemsPart Two: The Emotions.5. THE COLOR OF THOUGHT: Emotions in Poetry The Role of EmotionWilliam Butler Yeats The SpurDick Davis Desire*Heather McHugh Earthmoving MaledictionAmmianus Epitaph of Nearchos*Michael McFee Time EnoughW.H. Auden The Shield of AchillesSense and SentimentalityAnonymous The Unquiet Grave*Julia Moore Little LibbieJohn Crowe Ransom Bells For John Whiteside's DaughterAlgernon Charles Swinburne Étude Réaliste (I)James Wright A Song for The Middle of the NightMay Swenson Cat & The WeatherWilliam Stafford Traveling Through The Dark*Richard Wilbur The Pardon<

Über Autor(innen)

Nims, John Frederick
Born in Muskegon, Michigan, John Frederick Nims received his M.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago. He has taught poetry and given workshops in poetry at Notre Dame, the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois at Urbana, Harvard University, Willialms College, the University of Florida, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Florence and Madrid and has been on the staff of many writers conferences, including the one at Bread Loaf, Vermont, where he taught for more than ten years. He is the author of eight books of poetry among them, The Iron Pastoral, Knowledge of the Evening (a National Book Award nominee), The Kiss: A Jambalaya, Zany in Denim, and The Six Cornered Snowflakebooks that have brought him awards from The National Foundation of Arts and Humanities, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Brandeis University, which awarded him its Creative Arts Citation in Poetry. He has been the Phi Beta Kappa poet at the College of William and Mary and at Harvard University. He has also published several books of translations, including Sappho to Valery: Poems in Translation, The Poems of St. John of the Cross, and The Complete Poems of Michelangelo and edited The Harper Anthology of Poetry. Several times on the staff of Poetry (Chicago), he was its editor from 1978 to 1984. In 1982, he was awarded the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets; in 1986, a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry; in 1991, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.

Mason, David
David Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington, and received degrees from The Colorado College and the University of Rochester. He spent most of his twenties traveling and working as a manual laborer, with a brief stint working for a film company. He has taught at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, and is now on the faculty of The Colorado College. He lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs. Masons two prize-winning books of poems are The Buried Houses (1991) and The Country I Remember (1996). With Mark Jarman he co-edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (1996; reprinted 1998) and with the late John Frederick Nims Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (2000). His collection of literary essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, appeared in 2000. Mason is also a memoirist, fiction writer and frequent book reviewer.