The poetry handbook : a guide to reading poetry for pleasure and practical criticism /

• Lennard, John.

• English poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• English language -- Versification
• Criticism -- Authorship -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Poetry -- Explication
• Books and reading -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Poetics

• Oxford University Press,

• 0199265380
• 9780199265381

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• INTRODUCTION; 1. Metre; 2. Form; 3. Layout; 4. Punctuation; 5. Lineation; 6. Rhyme; 7. Diction; 8. Syntax; 9. History; 10. Biography; 11. Gender; 12. Exams; Glossary and Index of Technical Terms; Index of Poems and Poets Quoted and Cited; Select Bibliography and Further Reading.

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• Victorian novel
• Poetry the basics
• Angela Carter
• Metre rhythm and verse form
• language of poetry
• Studying poetry
• Oscar Wilde
• Doing English a guide for literature students
• Cunning passages new historicism cultural materialism and Marxism in the contemporary literary debate
• Literature culture and society
• Point of view in plays a cognitive stylistic approach to viewpoint in drama and other text types
• Cambridge companion to Arthur Miller
• Ways of reading advanced reading skills for students of English literature
• McCarthys Americans red scare politics in state and nation 1935 1965
• Collected essays
• Metaphor implications and applications
• Modernist reader modernism in England 1910 1930
• Modernist fiction an introduction
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• linguistic guide to English poetry
• empire writes back theory and practice in post colonial literatures
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• Cambridge companion to Oscar Wilde
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• Virginia Woolf
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• politics of postmodernism
• Studying plays
• introduction to post colonial theory
• Understanding metaphor in literature an empirical approach
• fiction of Angela Carter
• Language and world creation in poems and other texts
• Angela Carter
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• language of twentieth century poetry
• Cambridge introduction to narrative
• Beginning postmodernism
• Critical theory and practice a coursebook
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• Critical language awareness
• Principles of pragmatics
• Ethics & journalism
• Metaphors we live by
• Contemporary linguistics an introduction
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• Language and power
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