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Available
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Publication
Pearson (Longman) (11th Edition)
Pages
744
Description
First published in 1966, this anthology aims to helps students read poems closely, and provides a basic introduction to the elements of poetry. The book offers comprehensive coverage of different types of poetry, and discusses reading, analyzing and writing poetry.
Description
A dozen plays that instructors want to teach and students like to read are gathered in this portable and economical volume.
Table of Contents
Preface for Instructors
Oedipus Rex (Translated by Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald) Sophocles
Lysistrata (Translated by Dudley Fitts) Aristophanes
Hamlet William Shakespeare
A Doll's House (Translated by Rolf Fjelde) Henrik Ibsen
The Cherry Orchard (Translated by Carol Rocamora) Anton Chekhov
The Glass Menagerie Susan Glaspell Trifles
Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
Endgame Samuel Beckett
Top Girls Caryl Churchill
"Master Harold" . . . and the Boys Athol Fugard
The Piano Lesson August Wilson
A Brief History of Western Theater
Biographical and Textual Notes
Selected List of Video Resources
Glossary of Dramatic and Critical Terms
Table of Contents
Preface for Instructors
Oedipus Rex (Translated by Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald) Sophocles
Lysistrata (Translated by Dudley Fitts) Aristophanes
Hamlet William Shakespeare
A Doll's House (Translated by Rolf Fjelde) Henrik Ibsen
The Cherry Orchard (Translated by Carol Rocamora) Anton Chekhov
The Glass Menagerie Susan Glaspell Trifles
Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
Endgame Samuel Beckett
Top Girls Caryl Churchill
"Master Harold" . . . and the Boys Athol Fugard
The Piano Lesson August Wilson
A Brief History of Western Theater
Biographical and Textual Notes
Selected List of Video Resources
Glossary of Dramatic and Critical Terms
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1966
Physical description
744 p.; 9.25 inches
ISBN
0321209397 / 9780321209399
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LibraryThing member keylawk
A comprehensive handbook or text on the subject of poetry. The author is an accomplished poet and teaching scholar. XJ Kennedy first addresses the "Student", then the Instructor -- and I have his Instructor's Manual. Then he addresses "the Muse" at her altar -- to "grant that in a flash/ They
I was intrigued that the introduction proper to Poetry begins with "Entrances" before turning to "The Person in the Poem". Then "Words", moving through "Connotation and Allusion" to "Imagery", "Figures of Speech" [includes Metaphor, Simile, etc] and "Symbol and Allegory". Then three sections for morphological structures of "Sound", "Rhythm" and "Form". As a kind of expansion joint in the spine of the book, "Myth" with a theory of Archetypes. Then two chapters on "Evaluating Poetry" -- what flies and what flounders, and how to know excellence.
Hint - "most clerihews will yield their all at a single look", but when Butler Yeats sails to Byzantium, "That is no country for old men". Try for Aquinian Beauty - "having wholeness, harmony, and radiance".
Finally, XJ Kennedy then turns to "What is Poetry?" before presenting a selected Anthology of _____ [number?] the Professor notes that twelve poets were selected with seven or more poems each -- Shakespeare, Donne, Herrick, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Dickinson, Hopkins, Hardy, Yeats, Stevens, and Frost. In addition, the selection favors complex work, not the "hey nonny nonny" material of which little more can be said than "Look at this".
Glosses and slightly improved orthography ("rime" preferred to "rhyme") are provided, and an omnibus Index of Authors, Titles and First Lines.
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[Student devots and Instructors] and I, know incense from dead ash." I was intrigued that the introduction proper to Poetry begins with "Entrances" before turning to "The Person in the Poem". Then "Words", moving through "Connotation and Allusion" to "Imagery", "Figures of Speech" [includes Metaphor, Simile, etc] and "Symbol and Allegory". Then three sections for morphological structures of "Sound", "Rhythm" and "Form". As a kind of expansion joint in the spine of the book, "Myth" with a theory of Archetypes. Then two chapters on "Evaluating Poetry" -- what flies and what flounders, and how to know excellence.
Hint - "most clerihews will yield their all at a single look", but when Butler Yeats sails to Byzantium, "That is no country for old men". Try for Aquinian Beauty - "having wholeness, harmony, and radiance".
Finally, XJ Kennedy then turns to "What is Poetry?" before presenting a selected Anthology of _____ [number?] the Professor notes that twelve poets were selected with seven or more poems each -- Shakespeare, Donne, Herrick, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Dickinson, Hopkins, Hardy, Yeats, Stevens, and Frost. In addition, the selection favors complex work, not the "hey nonny nonny" material of which little more can be said than "Look at this".
Glosses and slightly improved orthography ("rime" preferred to "rhyme") are provided, and an omnibus Index of Authors, Titles and First Lines.
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