The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem
by Shira Wolosky
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As the least literal form of creative writing, for many readers poetry is also the most cryptic. Shira Wolosky introduces the skills needed for reading poetry, working from the individual word, line and image to verse forms, voice, gender and metre.Tags
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Shira Wolosky is a Professor of English and American Literature at the Hebrew University. She is the author of Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War; Language Mysticism; The Art of Poetry; "Nineteenth Century American Poetry" in the Cambridge History of American Literature IV, and Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America, among others.
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- Dedication
- For my children,
Talya,
Elazar,
Tamar,
Nomi
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- Genres
- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Poetry
- DDC/MDS
- 821.009 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures British Poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions History, description, critical appraisal of English poetry not limited by time period or kind of form
- LCC
- PE1505 .W55 — Language and Literature English language English Modern English
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- English
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