An Introduction to English Poetry James Fenton

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Zusammenfassung

A basic introduction to English poetry since Chaucer, including its main themes and genres, aimed at students and general readers alike. The book is based on a series of columns written for the Independent on Sunday, a sister column to David Lodge's series on English fiction.

An Introduction to English Poetry Zusammenfassung

An Introduction to English Poetry James Fenton

A basic introduction to English poetry since Chaucer, including its main themes, genres and more. Aimed at students and general readers alike, by a respected poet and former Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, the book is based on a series of columns written by the author for the Independent on Sunday, a sister column to David Lodge's series on English fiction which formed the basis of Lodge's book The Art of Fiction.

Über James Fenton

Until recently James Fenton was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. A former political journalist (he was south-east Asia correspondent for the Independent), he also served as drama critic for the Sunday Times for seven years, and writes regularly on art for the New Yorker. He has published four books of poems in Penguin. He lives outside Oxford and in London WC1.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The history and scope of English poetry; where music and poetry divide; the training of the poet; the sense of form; the iambic pentameter; variations in the line; patterns of stress; mysteries of the trochee; the genius of the trochee; the shorter lines; the iambic tetrameter; the longer lines; the shorter stanza; the longer stanza; the sonnet; minor forms; rhyme; syllabics; free verse; writing for the eye; song; poetic drama and opera.

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Sku

GOR001171580

ISBN 13

9780670911004

ISBN 10

0670911003

Titel

An Introduction to English Poetry James Fenton

Autor

James Fenton

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Verlag

Penguin Books Ltd

Datum

20020530

Anzahl der Seiten

144

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