Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inhe…
This text equips students with strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poems. This edition contains: end-of-chapter exercises and research tasks; new readings of modern women's poetry; section on 'How to Write Poetry' with exercises; suggestions for …
Quickly equips you with the strategies you need to deepen your engagement with individual poems. New for this edition:. End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research tasks New readings of modern women's poetry Section on How to Write Poetry with exercises Suggestions for furth…
"A central issue in the recent surge of interest in metre on the part of theorists in different disciplines and practicing poets has been that of variations in the iambic pentameter. Keppel-Jones approaches this subject in a way that somewhat resembles Derek Attridge's, but is i…
"A central issue in the recent surge of interest in metre on the part of theorists in different disciplines and practicing poets has been that of variations in the iambic pentameter. Keppel-Jones approaches this subject in a way that somewhat resembles Derek Attridge's, but is i…
"A central issue in the recent surge of interest in metre on the part of theorists in different disciplines and practicing poets has been that of variations in the iambic pentameter. Keppel-Jones approaches this subject in a way that somewhat resembles Derek Attridge's, but is i…
