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Making your own days : the pleasures of reading and writing poetry

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Print Book, English, 1999
1st Touchstone ed View all formats and editions
Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1999
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317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780684824383, 0684824388
1014205231
ContentsA Brief PrefacePart I The Language of Poetry1. The Two Languages2. Music Repetition and Rhythm Line Division Meter Non-Metrical Poetry Rhyme Non-Rhyming and Irregularly Rhyming Poetry Stanzas and Poetic Forms3. The Inclinations of the Poetry Language Comparisons Personification and Apostrophe Lies A Few Other Inclinations4. The Poetry BasePart II Writing and Reading Poetry1. Inspiration2. Writing3. Reading Long Poems Dramatic Poetry Poetry in Other Languages and in TranslationPart III An Anthology of PoemsIndexPermissions
"A Touchstone book."
Includes index