| Description |
318 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 307-309. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Contents : Prologue: Of English Verse -- A Foreward -- I : THE ANATOMY OF POETRY -- The Definition of Poetry -- The Experience of Poetry -- The Province of Poetry -- The Words of Poetry -- The Sound and Sense of Poetry -- The Styles of Poetry -- The Images of Poetry -- The Conceits of Poetry -- The Ambiguities of Poetry -- The Interpretation of Poetry -- The Criticism of Poetry -- The Conventions of Poetry -- The Prose of Poetry -- The Reading of Poetry -- The Translation of Poetry -- The Playfulness of Poetry -- The Oddities of Poetry -- II : THE CRAFT OF POETRY -- A Dictionary of Devices, A Handbook of Poetic Terms , and a Compendium of Metrical Patterns from Ballads to Ballades, From Lyrics to Epics, From Sonnets to Sestinas, With Examples of All the Forms and Variations -- Epilogue: Art -- A Selected Bibliography -- Index. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry -- Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977. Pursuit of poetry. New York, Simon and Schuster [1969] (OCoLC)645045526 |
| ISBN |
0675204092 |
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