Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for?
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
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The Poetry Home Repair Manual Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of an enlightening conversation with a wise, patient friend, one willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he spent a lifetime learning.
CONTENTS
PART I
POETRY IN GENERAL
I. A GLANCE AT THE BACKGROUND
II. THE PROVINCE OF POETRY
III. THE POET'S IMAGINATION
IV. THE POET'S WORDS
V. RHYTHM AND METRE
VI. RHYME, STANZA AND FREE VERSE
PART II
THE LYRIC IN PARTICULAR
VII. THE FIELD OF LYRIC POETRY
VIII. RELATIONSHIPS AND TYPES OF THE LYRIC
IX. RACE, EPOCH AND INDIVIDUAL
X. THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE LYRIC
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Italia Romantica
This book attempts to chart the vision of Italy as it was developed by the second generation English Romantic poets, influenced as they were by the malign influence of the Gothic novelists. It examines the influence of Italian writers in new English translations at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, especially on Byron, perhaps the most influential authority on Italy in his day.
It traces the awakening of a new historical awareness of an Italy apart from Rome and the Renaissance and the new use to which classical lore was put by poets as similar and yet so different as Keats and Leopardi. It examines the influence of new tourists, especially women, of landscape painting, of interests other than antiquarianism, it discusses social phenomena that influenced opinion, like lawlessness and the Roman Catholic Church. England greeted the Risorgimento with disbelief, given the poor opinion with which so many of her tourists returned from Italy, but with a sympathy born of the better knowledge of her situation that these same tourists had provided. Italy’s transformation from geographical expression to nation and acceptance in her new role as a European power was certainly helped by this long process of familiarisation.
