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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2012
      08 October 2012
      ISBN:
      9780511982224
      9780521772945
      9780521774994
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511982224
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 253 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 253 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
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    Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction that will be of help to undergraduates and more advanced readers of poetry alike. The book sees form as neither ornamenting nor mimicking content, but as shaping and animating it, encouraging readers to cultivate techniques to read poems as poems. Lively and wide-ranging, engaging with poems as aesthetic experiences, the book includes a long chapter on the elements of form that throws new light on troubling terms such as rhythm and metre, as well as a detailed introduction and accessible, stimulating chapters on lyric, the sonnet, elegy, soliloquy, dramatic monologue and ballad and narrative.

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    'Michael Hurley and Michael O’Neill’s Poetic Form: An Introduction offers an overview of the study of poetic form, including controversies. This clearly written and engaging text includes chapters on lyric; on the sonnet and elegy as subsets of lyric; on drama in the guise of the soliloquy and dramatic monologue, and finally on ballad and narrative.'

    Source: Victorian Poetry

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