The sound sense of poetry:

What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond to them? Acclaimed poet Peter Robinson brings his knowledge of poetic art to the understanding of the reader's contribution in enabling poetry to pla...

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Main Author: Robinson, Peter 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Melbourne ; Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2018
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108386104
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108386104
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108386104
Summary:What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond to them? Acclaimed poet Peter Robinson brings his knowledge of poetic art to the understanding of the reader's contribution in enabling poetry to play its part in life. Emphasising the value of individual writers' and readers' interactions, together with such key matters as meter and rhythm, voicing and form, rhyme and syntax, Robinson shows how poems engage in speech performances such as promising, justifying, excusing, and explaining - including the telling of truths. Illustrated with detailed readings of poems by, among others, Jonson, Marvell, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Dickinson, Kipling, Basil Bunting, Frank O'Hara, Tony Harrison, and Denise Riley, this book shows how important poetry is as a means to do things with words and make things happen
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Sep 2018)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 230 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108386104
DOI:10.1017/9781108386104