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Provides a practical guide to the poet's craft. Topics such as metre, form, layout, lineation, punctuation, rhyme, diction and syntax are covered and at the end of each chapter, each topic is applied to the same poem, Nobel-winner Derek Walcott's "Nearing Forty".
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The Poetry Handbook, John Lennard
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- The Poetry Handbook
- Subtitle
- A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Lennard
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 238
- ISBN10
- 0198711492
- ISBN13
- 9780198711490
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Hobby, Literary Studies, School, Crafts, Literary Criticism, Writing
- Rating
- 3.4 out of 5
- Description
- Provides a practical guide to the poet's craft. Topics such as metre, form, layout, lineation, punctuation, rhyme, diction and syntax are covered and at the end of each chapter, each topic is applied to the same poem, Nobel-winner Derek Walcott's "Nearing Forty".