Poetic Form

This work provides lucid, elegant and original analyses of poetic form and its workings in a wide range of poems. This book takes the reader on a journey of discovery into the nature and history of poetry as it looks at poetic form in an array of poems from Old English to the present, including dramatic poetry such as Marlowe, Shakespeare and Yeats.

Informationen zum Autor Michael D. Hurley combines a wide and interdisciplinary record of publishing in poetry and poetics with considerable experience as a teacher of close reading and practical criticism at Cambridge. His work is marked by an ambition to explore the relationship between what literature makes us feel and how it makes us think. His recent book on G. K. Chesterton was praised by one critic for being 'striking in the precision of its formal analysis and the elegance of its prose'. Klappentext This work provides lucid, elegant and original analyses of poetic form and its workings in a wide range of poems. "O'Neill (Durham Univ., UK) and Hurley (Univ. of Cambridge, UK) are both established scholars in the field, O'Neill with an enviably long and highly acclaimed oeuvre of publication in Romantic and Victorian poetry." -- Choice Zusammenfassung This book takes the reader on a journey of discovery into the nature and history of poetry as it looks at poetic form in an array of poems from Old English to the present! including dramatic poetry such as Marlowe! Shakespeare and Yeats. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The elements of poetic form; 2. Lyric; 3. The sonnet; 4. Elegy; 5. Epic; 6. Soliloquy; 7. Dramatic monologue; 8. Ballad and narrative.

Résumé
This book takes the reader on a journey of discovery into the nature and history of poetry as it looks at poetic form in an array of poems from Old English to the present, including dramatic poetry such as Marlowe, Shakespeare and Yeats.

Contenu

Introduction; 1. The elements of poetic form; 2. Lyric; 3. The sonnet; 4. Elegy; 5. Epic; 6. Soliloquy; 7. Dramatic monologue; 8. Ballad and narrative.