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Foster Thomas C - How To Read Poetry Like A Professor A Quippy And Sonorous Guide To Verse - Paperback
Foster Thomas C - How To Read Poetry Like A Professor A Quippy And Sonorous Guide To Verse - Paperback
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Description: From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles. No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures poetry is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and knowledge. Poetry demands more from readers intellectually emotionally and spiritually than other literary forms. Most of us started out loving poetry because it filled our beloved children's books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But reading poetry doesn t need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and engaging voice Thomas C. Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of poetry and learn to enjoy it once more. From classic poets such as Shakespeare Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Edna St. Vincent Millay to later poets such as E. E. Cummings Billy Collins and Seamus Heaney How to Read Poetry Like a Professor examines a wide array of poems and teaches readers: How to read a poem to understand its primary meaning. The different technical elements of poetry such as meter diction rhyme line structures length order regularity and how to learn to see these elements as allies rather than adversaries. How to listen for a poem's secondary meaning by paying attention to the echoes that the language of poetry summons up. How to hear the music in poems and the poetry in songs! With How to Read Poetry Like a Professor readers can rediscover poetry and reap its many rewards.
Title: How To Read Poetry Like A Professor A Quippy And Sonorous Guide To Verse
Author(s): Foster Thomas C
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062113788
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 3/27/2018
Category: Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides
Description: From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles. No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures poetry is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and knowledge. Poetry demands more from readers intellectually emotionally and spiritually than other literary forms. Most of us started out loving poetry because it filled our beloved children's books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But reading poetry doesn t need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and engaging voice Thomas C. Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of poetry and learn to enjoy it once more. From classic poets such as Shakespeare Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Edna St. Vincent Millay to later poets such as E. E. Cummings Billy Collins and Seamus Heaney How to Read Poetry Like a Professor examines a wide array of poems and teaches readers: How to read a poem to understand its primary meaning. The different technical elements of poetry such as meter diction rhyme line structures length order regularity and how to learn to see these elements as allies rather than adversaries. How to listen for a poem's secondary meaning by paying attention to the echoes that the language of poetry summons up. How to hear the music in poems and the poetry in songs! With How to Read Poetry Like a Professor readers can rediscover poetry and reap its many rewards.
Title: How To Read Poetry Like A Professor A Quippy And Sonorous Guide To Verse
Author(s): Foster Thomas C
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062113788
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 3/27/2018
Category: Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides