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The Poetry Handbook

Paperback • 2006 • English

The Poetry Handbook

By John Lennard

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About the book

The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry, from metre to gender, offer a wide-ranging general account, and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne, Elizabeth Bishop, Geoffrey Hill, and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott), to build up sustained analytical readings. Thorough and compact, with notes and quotations supplemented b...Show more

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9780199265381

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

The Poetry Handbook

Format

Paperback

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