In The Art of Poetry, Shira Wolosky provides a dazzling
introduction to an art whose emphasis on verbal music, wordplay,
and dodging the merely literal makes it at once the most beguiling
and most challenging of literary forms.
A uniquely comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to poetic form,
The Art of Poetry moves progressively from smaller units such as
the word, line, and image, to larger features such as verse forms
and voice. In fourteen engaging, beautifully written chapters,
Wolosky explores in depth how poetry does what it does while
offering brilliant readings of some of the finest lyric poetry in
the English and American traditions. Both readers new to poetry and
poetry veterans will be moved and enlightened as Wolosky interprets
work by William Shakespeare, John Donne, William Blake, William
Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, and
others. The book includes a superb two-chapter discussion of the
sonnet's form and history, and represents the first poetry guide to
introduce gender as a basic element of analysis.
In contrast to many existing guides, which focus on selected formal
aspects like metrics or present definitions and examples in a
handbook format, The Art of Poetry covers the full landscape of
poetry's subtle art while showing readers how to comprehend a
poetic text in all its dimensions. Other special features include
Wolosky's consideration of historical background for the
developments she discusses, and the way her book is designed to
acquaint or reacquaint readers with the core of the lyric tradition
in English.
Lively, accessible, and original, The Art of Poetry will be a rich
source of inspiration for students, general readers, and those who
teach poetry.
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