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Invitation to Poetry: The Pleasures of Studying Poetry and Poetics

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3163-6
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256 pages
January 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Conceptual Syntax: An Introduction to the Way Poems Invite Different Approaches and Position Readers.

2. Speaking Poetry: Night Pieces and Intertextual Conversations.

3. The Gestures and Subjects of the Sonnet.

4. The Uses of Meter and Rhythm in the Sonnet.

5. The Form of the Voice: Tone and Diction.

6. Modes, Odes, and Odic Gestures.

7. What is Pastoral?.

8. Traditions, Legacies, and Individual Talents.

9. Forests and Trees, or Playing with Poems.

Index

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