| 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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| Description | | - 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
| 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, from metre to gender, offer a wide-ranging general account, and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne, Elizabeth Bishop, Geoffrey Hill, and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott),
to build up sustained analytical readings.
Thorough and compact, with notes and quotations supplemented by detailed reference to the Norton Anthology of Poetry and a companion website with texts, links, and further discussion, The Poetry Handbook
is indispensable for all school and undergraduate students of English. A final chapter addresses examinations of all kinds, and sample essays by
undergraduates are posted on the website. Critical and scholarly terms are italicised and clearly explained, both in the text and in a complete glossary; the volume also includes suggestions for further reading.
The first edition, widely praised by teachers and students, showed how the pleasures of poetry are heightened by rigorous understanding and made that understanding readily available.
This second edition -- revised, expanded, updated, and supported by a new companion website - confirm The Poetry Handbook
as the best guide to poetry available in English.
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Readership: A Level and Degree level Students of English Literature.
| 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
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
John Lennard, Teaches at Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
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