A Poet’s Guide to Poetry, Second Edition
584 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1999, 2013
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Table of Contents

Contents
A Note on Sources
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: The Mind That Reads
1 What the Poem Thinks: A Poetics
Part I The Six Elements of Relation and Resemblance
2 Line and Half-Meaning
3 Syntax and Whole Meaning
4 Diction and Layers in Meaning
5 Trope and Thought
6 Rhetoric and Speech
7 Rhythm as Combination
Part II The Elements, Controlled in Time
8 Accentual-Syllabic Meter: The Role of Stress and Interval
9 Stanza and Rhyme: The Role of Echo
10 Further Rhythms in English—Counted Forms: Accentual Verse and Syllabic Verse (Including Haiku)
11 Further Rhythms in English—Non-Counted Forms: The Four Freedoms of Free Verse
Part III Writing in Form
12 Exercises for Beginning and Advanced Writers
13 Poetic Terms
14 Annotated Bibliography of Further Reading
List of Poems by Form
Author and Title Index
Subject Index
Credits
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: The Mind That Reads
1 What the Poem Thinks: A Poetics
Part I The Six Elements of Relation and Resemblance
2 Line and Half-Meaning
3 Syntax and Whole Meaning
4 Diction and Layers in Meaning
5 Trope and Thought
6 Rhetoric and Speech
7 Rhythm as Combination
Part II The Elements, Controlled in Time
8 Accentual-Syllabic Meter: The Role of Stress and Interval
9 Stanza and Rhyme: The Role of Echo
10 Further Rhythms in English—Counted Forms: Accentual Verse and Syllabic Verse (Including Haiku)
11 Further Rhythms in English—Non-Counted Forms: The Four Freedoms of Free Verse
Part III Writing in Form
12 Exercises for Beginning and Advanced Writers
13 Poetic Terms
14 Annotated Bibliography of Further Reading
List of Poems by Form
Author and Title Index
Subject Index
Credits
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