"Now in its third edition Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the world of poetry. Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Carol Ann Duffy, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how any reader can understand …
To read a poem with complete pleasure we must understand how it works rhythmically and how its rhythms are related to those of other poems. Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody - the rhythmic organization of poetic language - for any student learning to read or write poetr…
To read a poem with complete pleasure we must understand how it works rhythmically and how its rhythms are related to those of other poems. Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody - the rhythmic organization of poetic language - for any student learning to read or write poetr…
In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song.
Aristotle's Poetics is the first work of literary criticism ever written and the first philosophical account of an art form. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Poetics is an accessible guide to this often dense and cryptic work. Angela Curran introduces and …
Aristotle's life and writings -- Grounding principles and concepts -- Differentiating the imitative arts -- The pleasures in imitations -- Tragedy defined -- The six elements of poetic composition -- Philosophy, poetry and knowledge -- The tragic emotions, plot elements and patt…