| Description |
7 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (120 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
The Modern scholar |
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Modern scholar.
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| Performer |
Professor Michael D.C. Drout, lecturer. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Bibliography |
Course guide includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
In part IV of this fascinating series, Professor Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future. Addressing such poetic luminaries as Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, these lectures explain in simple terms what poetry is while following its development through the centuries. |
| Contents |
Lecture 1. What is poetry? -- Lecture 2. Oral tradition -- Lecture 3. The roots of the tree: Anglo-Saxon poetry -- Lecture 4. Of meters and of rhyming craftily: Middle English and the development of rhymed poetry -- Lecture 5. Early Renaissance: an exploration of form -- Lecture 6. Metaphysicals, Milton -- Lecture 7. The hard stuff: the eighteenth century and the influence of classical learning -- Lecture 8. Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge -- Lecture 9. Later romantics: Byron, Shelley, and Keats -- Lecture 10. Victorians! -- Lecture 11. American poetry and the development of free verse -- Lecture 12. Modernism -- Lecture 13. Late modernism -- Lecture 14. Poetry now. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetics.
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| Added Title |
Way with words 4 |
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Way with words four |
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Understanding poetry |
| ISBN |
9781436129206 set $98.75 |
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1436129206 set $98.75 |
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9781436129213 course guide |
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1436129214 course guide |
| Music No. |
UC122 Recorded Books |
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