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Item Details
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THE POEM AND THE JOURNEY
60 POEMS FOR THE JOURNEY OF LIFE |
| By: |
Ruth Padel |
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Electronic book text |
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£10.43 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1409078612 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781409078616 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
30 June, 2011 |
| Description: |
Combining the author's training as a Classicist with her insights as a poet, this title highlights the ways in which the best poets find a balance between rhymed formal verse and modernism's freer styles, using a traditional, formal craft to convey genuinely felt, up-to-the-minute experience. |
| Synopsis: |
Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet who has also become renowned as an energetic, generous and thought-provoking guide to reading poetry. Her "52 Ways of Looking at a Poem", with its lively overview of contemporary writing and eye-opening readings of individual poems, is indispensable for anyone who writes poetry, teaches it, or simply wants to enjoy it. In her new book, she uses sixty poems by some of our finest poets to look at the idea of the journey, through literature and through life. As Padel makes clear in her fascinating introduction, today's debates about how accessible a poem should be are poetry's older tradition. To rhyme or not to rhyme? The Elizabethans fought over that one, while the Greeks couldn't agree about whether poetry should be dumbed down or remain the preserve of the elite. Combining her training as a Classicist with her insights as a poet, Padel highlights the ways in which the best poets now find a balance between rhymed formal verse and modernism's freer styles, using a traditional, formal craft to convey genuinely felt, up-to-the-minute experience.In an increasingly unstable world, she argues, we need poetry more than ever to help us to see afresh and understand the journeys of our lives. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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