Poetry : An Introduction

by Michael Meyer

• ISBN13: 9780312250768
• ISBN10: 0312250762
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-01-22
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

By the author of the best-selling The Bedford Introduction to Literature, this book offers the same breadth of traditional and contemporary selections, the same clear and accessible coverage of the elements of poetry, the same provocative secondary materials and indepth treatment of selected poets, and the same pervasive concern with critical thinking and writing about poetry.

Table of Contents

Resources for Writing about Poetry
Preface for Instructors	v
Introduction: Reading Imaginative Literature	1	(6)
THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY	7	(278)
Reading Poetry	9	(37)
Writing about Poetry	46	(7)
Word Choice, Word Order, and Tone	53	(36)
Images	89	(25)
Figures of Speech	114	(24)
Symbol, Allegory, and Irony	138	(32)
Sounds	170	(31)
Patterns of Rhythm	201	(22)
Poetic Forms	223	(28)
Open Form	251	(23)
Combining the Elements of Poetry	274	(11)
APPROACHES TO POETRY	285	(194)
Emily Dickinson: A Body of Work	287	(46)
Robert Frost: A Life and Work	333	(37)
Langston Hughes: Culture and Work	370	(34)
Critical Case Study: T. S. Eliot's ``The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''	404	(16)
Cultural Case Study: Julia Alvarez's ``Queens, 1963''	420	(13)
Thematic Case Study	433	(18)
Biographies of Selected Poets	451	(28)
CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING	479	(108)
Critical Strategies for Reading	481	(38)
Reading and Writing	519	(38)
The Literary Research Paper	557	(25)
Taking Essay Examinations	582	(5)
A COLLECTION OF POEMS	587	(100)
An extensive collection of 130 poems, including albums of world and contemporary poetry
Glossary of Literary Terms	687	(26)
Index of First Lines	713	(8)
Index of Authors and Titles	721
Index of Terms