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The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism

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The Poetry Handbook offers a lucid and practical guide to the poet's craft. In addition to the varied examples that accompany chapters on meter, form, layout, lineation, punctuation, rhyme, diction, syntax, history, biography, and gender, at the end of every chapter, Lennard applies each topic to the same poem, Nobel Prize-winner Derek Walcott's "Nearing Forty," building, incrementally, a full technical reading. Lennard italicizes and clearly explains critical and scholarly terms, both in the text and in glossaries. He ...

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The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism 1997, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780198711544

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The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism 1996, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780198711490

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