Invitation to poetry
Subtitle: the pleasures of studying poetry and poetics
By: Lisa M. Steinman.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405131636; 9781405131643
Subjects: English poetry -- Study and teaching -- Methodology; American poetry -- Study and teaching -- Methodology; Poetry -- Study and teaching -- Methodology; Poetics -- Study and teaching -- Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptual syntax: an introduction to the way poems invite different approaches and position readers; title: Speaking poetry: night pieces and intertextual conversations; title: The gestures and subjects of the sonnet; title: The uses of meter and rhythm in the sonnet; title: The form of the voice: tone and diction; title: Modes, odes, and odic gestures; title: What is pastoral?; title: Traditions, legacies, and individual talents; title: Forests and trees, or playing with poems.