Selected poems
Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781610753722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poems deal with a wide range of subjects including love, death, marriage, war, and nature
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Poetry Kaleidoscope
Author: Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher: Nicolae Sfetcu
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduction in poetry: nature of poetry, tools, history, terms (periods, styles and movements, technical means, tropes, measures of verse, verse forms, national poetry... Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. Some modernists (such as the Surrealists) approach this problem of definition by defining poetry not as a literary genre within a set of genres, but as the very manifestation of human imagination, the substance which all creative acts derive from.
John Ciardi: a Biography (p)
Author: Edward M. Cifelli
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9781610752169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this study of Ciardi's life, Edward Cifelli has captured all the deep concern, passion, and thoughtfulness that marked Ciardi's long career in American letters. With care and penetrating detail, Cifelli evokes Ciardi's early childhood in Boston, his Italian heritage, his service as a gunner on a B-29 during World War II, and his years teaching at Harvard and Rutgers. Illuminated here are Ciardi's widely read contributions as an editor of Saturday Review and World magazines, as well as his tireless effort to bring an awareness and love of language and poetry to America through radio, television, the lecture circuit, and his twenty-six years on the staff of the famous Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a gathering he directed for seventeen years.
John Ciardi
Author: Vince Clemente
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780938626800
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Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781610753708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Patterns of Poetry
Author: Miller Williams
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1986-08-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780807113301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Miller Williams’ Patterns of Poetry is an encyclopedia of the forms used by poets throughout the history of English, from blank verse to hymnal measure, from englyn penfyr to the double dactyl, from the clerihew to the sonnet. Each form is introduced with a brief discussion of its origin, which is followed by a graphic presentation of its scansion, metrics, and rhyme scheme. Sample poems show how each form actually works. Williams begins Patterns of Poetry with an introduction entitled “Form and the Age,” in which he traces the history of form in the arts and the ways in which any form relates to the political, social, and religious temper of the period in which it becomes dominant. He then prefaces the main text with useful notes on rhyme, prosodic symbols, the major feet, metrics, and nonce forms. Also included in the book are a glossary; a bibliography; a listing of additional poems in the various patterns (poems not included in the text but of great use to teachers); an essay on the line as the prosodic unit; and an index.
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 2479
ISBN-13: 1317763211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
Limericks
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Gramercy
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780517208823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A witty collection of more than 550 limericks from two world-famous writers, and all of them just 'naughty' enough to make this 'literary form' hilarious fun!
A Grossery of Limericks
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393331127
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Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9780393045307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Renaissance man and the poet/ critic engage in a lighthearted literary duel utilizing the rigid verse tradition of the limerick and providing a humorous look at sex and the human condition
