A Book of English Poetry
Title | A Book of English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | G. B. Harrison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Rhythms of English Poetry
Title | The Rhythms of English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Attridge |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2014-07-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1317869516 |
Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He investigates these in order to explain the forms of English verse, and to show how rhythm and metre work as an essential part of the reader's experience of poetry.
The Paperbook of South African English Poetry
Title | The Paperbook of South African English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Chapman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | South African poetry (English) |
ISBN |
The Penguin Book of English Verse
Title | The Penguin Book of English Verse PDF eBook |
Author | P J Keegan |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 1360 |
Release | 2004-09-30 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0141941871 |
This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.
The Cambridge History of English Poetry
Title | The Cambridge History of English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Michael O'Neill |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1117 |
Release | 2010-04-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521883067 |
A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.
An Introduction to English Poetry
Title | An Introduction to English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | James Fenton |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0374528896 |
An introduction to poetry makes use of prisoner's work songs, Broadway show tunes, and the cries of street vendors to introduce readers to the rhythms of poetry.
Reading Old English Biblical Poetry
Title | Reading Old English Biblical Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Schrunk Ericksen |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2020-11-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487507461 |
Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The manuscript is both a continuous whole and a collection with discontinuities and functionally independent pieces. The chapters of Reading Old English Biblical Poetry propose multiple models for reader engagement with the texts in this manuscript, including selective and sequential reading, reading in juxtaposition, and reading in contexts within and outside of the pages of Junius 11. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript's compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this or any book's contents.