The Poetry Handbook by John Lennard
This text provides a practical guide to the poet's craft. There are chapters on metre, form, layout, lineation, punctuation, rhyme, diction, syntax, history, biography, and gender, as well as one on exams which includes sample essays by undergraduates. At the end of every chapter each topic is applied to the same poem, Nobel-winner Derek Walcott's "Nearing Forty", building up a full technical reading. Critical and scholarly terms are italicized and clearly explained, both in the text and in glossaries. Notes and quotations are supplemented by detailed reference to both the Oxford Anthology of English Literature and the Norton Anthology of Poetry and there is a substantial "Suggestions for Further Reading" section.John Lennard was a professor at the Universities of London and Cambridge, as well as the Open University. But I Digress (1991), the best-selling Poetry Handbook (1996), and The Drama Handbook (2002) are his three publications. He is currently Dean of the Shakespeare Program at the British-American Theatre School in London, a member of Fairleigh Dickinson University's Global Virtual Faculty, and a guest lecturer at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198711544 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198711549 |
| Title | The Poetry Handbook |
| Author | John Lennard |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1996-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 237 |
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