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The Essential Poet's Glossary
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General ReferenceGrammar & StyleGeneral Poetry
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ISBN10: 0544931238
ISBN13: 9780544931237
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Apr 4 2017
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780544931237
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Apr 4 2017
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A Poet's Glossary was an extraordinary achievement that continues to stand as a definitive source for poets and poetry lovers alike. Here, The Essential Poet's Glossary gleans the very best from that extraordinary volume.
An instant classic that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious poet and literature student.--Washington Post
Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets Edward Hirsch has compiled poetic terms spanning centuries and continents, including forms, devices, movements, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore. Knowing how a poem works is crucial to unlocking its meaning--entries will deepen readers' relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter.
Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made A Poet's Glossary and How to Read a Poem so beloved, this Essential edition is the book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to again and again.
An instant classic that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious poet and literature student.--Washington Post
Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets Edward Hirsch has compiled poetic terms spanning centuries and continents, including forms, devices, movements, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore. Knowing how a poem works is crucial to unlocking its meaning--entries will deepen readers' relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter.
Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made A Poet's Glossary and How to Read a Poem so beloved, this Essential edition is the book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to again and again.
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