Barry Reading poetry

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1177-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry ‘at work’ in poems

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barry, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘One small step’
READING THE LINES
1. Meaning
2. Imagery
3. Diction
4. Metre
5. Form
READING BETWEEN THE LINES
6. Close and distant reading
7. Feeling and sentiment
8. Text and context
9. Poems and pictures
10. Sequences and clusters
READING BEYOND THE LINES
11. Place and time
12. Poetry with theory
13. Minimalism and micro-poetry
14. Concrete canticles
15. Textual genesis
End-note
List of poems discussed
Glossary
Further reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barry Peter:
Peter Barry is Professor of English at the University of Wales, AberystwythPeter Barry is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University