How to Read a Poem - Softcover

Raffel, Burton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452010330 ISBN 13: 9780452010338

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Burton Raffel has taught English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of Beowulf, Horace: Odes, Epodes, Epistles, Satires, The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, From the Vietnamese, Ten Centuries of Poetry, The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich, Mandelstram (with Alla Burago), and Poems From the Old English and The Annotated Milton; several critical studies, Introduction to Poetry, How to Read a Poem, The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry, and The Forked Tounge: A Study of the Translation Process; and Mia Poems, a volume of his own poetry. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation's English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia.

Synopsis:

Explains how poetic techniques such as rhyme, meter, imagery, and structure allow poems to convey meaning beyond content alone, and offers more than two hundred classic and contemporary poems as examples.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0452010330
• ISBN 13: 9780452010338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276