How to Read a Poem (Meridian)

by Burton Raffel

1984

Status

Available

Call number

H Poems Raf

Genres

Fiction

Collection

H. Poems & Songs

Publication

Plume (1984), Edition: Reissue, 272 pages

Description

An introductory text that is both an anthology of over 200 poems and a comprehensive exploration of the form. Over 100 poets featured; those most widely represented include Blake, Byron, cummings, Dickinson, Donne, Alan Dugan, Frost, Louise Gluck, George Herbert, Keats, Pope, Pound, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Yeats.

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LibraryThing member apartmentcarpet

I always thought I didn't like poetry until I read Edna St. Vincent Millay's Renascence. After that, I picked this book up at a bargain sale. Rather than a chronological progression of poems, each chapter takes a different aspect of a poem, such as imagery or rhythm, and explains them in detail,

using poems as an illustration. Of course it's a little bit like reading a text book at times, but I think it greatly increased my ability to appreciate poetry in general.

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LibraryThing member jwhenderson

This is a straightforward introduction to the art of poetry. Burton Raffel, a noted poet and translator, discusses the meaning, structure, and techniques of poetry. The generous use of examples from the best of poetry is used to demonstrate the specifics of poetics.

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