Poetry 101
From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry
Susan Dalzell
- 256 pages
- English
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Poetry 101
From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry
Susan Dalzell
Ă propos de ce livre
Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across the world, poetry continues to inform the way we write now, whether we realize it or notâespecially in social mediaâwith its focus on brevity and creating the greatest possible impact with the fewest words. Poetry 101 is your companion to the wonderful world of meter and rhyme, and walks you through the basics of poetry. From Shakespeare and Chaucer, to Maya Angelou and Rupi Kaur, you'll explore the different styles and methods of writing, famous poets, and poetry movements and conceptsâand even find inspiration for creating poems of your own. Whether you are looking to better understand the poems you read, or you want to tap into your creative side to write your own, Poetry 101 gives you everything you need!
Foire aux questions
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INDEX
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Dedication
- Introduction
- How to Read a Poem
- Stanza, Meter, and Form
- Ancient Greeks and Romans
- The Anglo-Saxons
- Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340â1400)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564â1593)
- William Shakespeare (1564â1616)
- John Donne (1572â1631)
- Religious Poetry
- Art and Poetry
- Neoclassical Poets
- Ballads
- Robert Burns (1759â1796)
- Romantic Movement (1789â1824)
- John Keats (1795â1821)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792â1822)
- Lord Byron (1788â1824)
- Love Poetry
- The Victorians
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806â1861)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809â1892)
- Death and Poetry
- Free Verse
- Walt Whitman (1819â1892)
- Emily Dickinson (1830â1886)
- William Butler Yeats (1865â1939)
- War Poetry
- The Modernists
- Ezra Pound (1885â1972)
- T.S. Eliot (1888â1965)
- Marianne Moore (1887â1972)
- E.E. Cummings (1894â1962)
- William Carlos Williams (1883â1963)
- W.H. Auden (1907â1973)
- Nature Poetry
- Robert Frost (1874â1963)
- Feminism and Poetry
- Adrienne Rich (1929â2012)
- Maya Angelou (1928â2014)
- African-American Poets
- Langston Hughes (1902â1967)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872â1906)
- Contemporary Movements
- Sylvia Plath (1932â1963)
- Ted Hughes (1930â1998)
- The Beats
- Poetry As Protest
- Seamus Heaney (1939â2013)
- Charles Simic (1938âPresent)
- Louise GlĂŒck (1943âPresent)
- Billy Collins (1941âPresent)
- Rap and Slam
- Rupi Kaur (1992âPresent)
- Writing Poetry
- Pushing Poetic Forms
- Photographs
- About the Author
- Index
- Copyright