The Poetry Handbook
Second Edition
John Lennard
05 January 2006
ISBN: 9780199265381
448 pages
Paperback
216x138mm
In Stock
Price: £30.99Description
The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry offer a wide-ranging general account and end by looking at different poems, to build up sustained analytical readings.
The second edition - fully revised, expanded, updated, and supported by a new companion website - confirm The Poetry Handbook as the best guide to poetry available in English.
- Offers a detailed discussion and introduction to poetic technique
- Emphasis on practical criticism helps students gain a new appreciation for poetry and to really learn how poems work
- New companion website includes links to poems cited in the text and sample student essays
- Very accessible for students, with clear, logical analysis, entertaining examples and a glossary with coherent definitions
- References throughout are to the new fifth edition of The Norton Anthology - the standard set-text in most undergraduate poety courses
New to this edition
- The second edition is accompanied by a companion website, including links to all the poems cited in the text and sample student essays
- The new edition will use an additional six poems to provide running examples within the various chapters, as well as using Derek Walcott's 'Nearing Forty'
- The book's coverage will be extended to include discussion of poetic sequences and narrative poetry
- All references to the 'Norton Anthology of English Literature' will be updated to refer to the current (4th) edition
- The book will include an annotated bibliography
About the Author(s)
John Lennard, Professor-Elect of British and American Literature, UWI-Mona, Jamaica
Table of Contents
- Introduction
1:Metre
2:Form
3:Layout
4:Punctuation
5:Lineation
6:Rhyme
7:Diction
8:Syntax
9:History
10:Biography
11:Gender
12:Exams
Glossary and Index of Technical Terms
Index of Poems and Poets Quoted and Cited
Select Bibliography and Further Reading
Reviews
"Lennard succeeds in being as exhaustive as he can possibly be..." - Caroline Bertoneche, Universite de Provence
"Very readable... gives and excellent overview of poetry in English and will explain rhythm, metre and style." - The Observer, February 2006
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