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By Design: Intention in Poetry

By Design: Intention in Poetry

Ferry, Anne

Hardcover

Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0804757992
ISBN13: 9780804757997
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

By Design is a study in the workings of conscious intention as evidenced in such elements of poetic design as rhyme, choice of title, the revision process, and the reinterpretation of a key word, figure, or narrative situation from earlier poems. Through a series of intensely scrutinized examples drawn from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, Anne Ferry celebrates the ever-changing vitality of the act of writing poems within the constraints, pressures, and urgings of history. In every instance, something startlingly and significantly new takes place because of the high degree of conscious awareness with which such poets as Sidney, Shakespeare, Herbert, Wordsworth, Stevens, Williams, Frost, Ashbery read one another--and, in some cases, themselves--exploring and reinterpreting one another's vocabularies and ways of working in order to carry out their designs.

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