How to Read Poetry

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  • Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic

    • ASIN: 0226730247
    • ISBN: 0226730247
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

    Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland’s biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo—a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Writing with great verve and erudition, Rowland traces Bruno’s w... [Read More]

  • Explicating a Poem - Literature Quick Reference Guide by Permacharts

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    This 6-panel laminated quick reference guide is part of the "Award Winning Professors Series "Poetry if speech framed...to be heard for its own sake." - Gerard Manley Hopkins. Some speak of "analyzing" poetry. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) reveals the unfortunate metaphorical origins of "analyze": "to take to pieces...to dissect, decompose." ... [Read More]

  • The Hatred of Poetry

    • ASIN: 0865478201
    • ISBN: 0865478201
    • Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Manufacturer: FSG Originals

    No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatr... [Read More]

  • Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language

    • ASIN: 1589880250
    • ISBN: 1589880250
    • Brand: Brand: Paul Dry Books
    • Manufacturer: Paul Dry Books

    Grammar-school students in Shakespeare’s time were taught to recognize the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from Latin and Greek sources (from amphibologia through onomatopoeia to zeugma). This knowledge was one element in their thorough grounding in the liberal arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, known as the... [Read More]

  • How to Read Poetry

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    How to Analyze a Poem