How to Read a Poem
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Books › Literary Criticism › Poetry
ISBN: 0452010330 / Publisher: Plume, April 1984
Explains how poetic techniques such as rhyme, meter, imagery, and structure allow poems to convey meaning beyond content alone, and offers more than two hundred classic and contemporary poems as examples
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An introductory text that is both an anthology of over 200 poems and a comprehensive exploration of the form. Over 100 poets featured; those most widely represented include Blake, Byron, cummings, Dickinson, Donne, Alan Dugan, Frost, Louise Gluck, George Herbert, Keats, Pope, Pound, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Yeats.
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