"For anyone who has ever wondered about the differences between
metaphor and metonym or a trochee and a dactyl, this compact,
well-organized handbook promises to be useful."
--"Library Journal"
Poetry: An Introduction is an accessible and clearly written
introduction to the structural and methodological principles
underpinning poetry and its study. It aims to equip the student,
researcher, and general reader with a body of technical information
that will sharpen and deepen their engagement with individual
poems.
Strachan and Terry provide a lively map through what might on
first experience seem the most daunting aspects of poetry: poetic
sound effects, rhythm and meter, the typographic display of poems
on the page, the language of poetry, and the use made by poets of
techniques of comparison and association. The book's discussion of
poetic terminology is allied throughout to illustrative readings
that show the usefulness of the terminology in approaching
particular poems; its emphasis is always a practical one,
demonstrating how poems actually work.
Beginning with an historical overview of the development of
English poetry from its earliest origins and finishing with an
authoritative dictionary of poetical terms, Poetry: An Introduction
is an indispensable guide to the understanding of poetry.
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