A Poet's Glossary
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0151011958 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 736 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Thomas F. Dillingham said A Personal Monument. Edward Hirsch has offered a one-man version of the venerable Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, now in its fourth edition, and for many, perhaps most, readers, Hirsch has made an offer we should not refuse. I have valued the Princeton volume since it was fir. English major must Complete and practical for litterateurs. Seriously You don't need this.
Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America, from small formal elements to large mysteries, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art.Knowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.. Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium
A thrilling “repertoire of poetic secrets,” this radiant compendium is shaped by Hirsch’s abiding gratitude for the demands and power, illumination, and solace of poetry, “a human fundamental.” --Donna Seaman . Hirsch demonstrated his glossarial gift in his best-selling How to Read a Poem (1999), launching the passionate and sustained immersion in world poetry’s vocabulary, genres, and theory brought to fruition here. The result is a uniquely vital, cogent, conversational, and inclusive inquiry into the craft, philosophical concerns, and emotional intensity that g