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A Brief Guide

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An edition of The sounds of poetry (1998)

The Sounds of Poetry

A Brief Guide

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As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America's best spokesmen for poetry, In this book, writing plainly and specifically, for general readers as well as for poets, he explains in detail how the sounds of poetry embody the work of art that is "performed" in us when we read it aloud.

Pinsky devotes clear, informative chapters to the sonic elements of poetry: accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank verse and free verse. He illustrates these with examples from the work of some fifty poets - from Shakespeare, Milton, and Emily Dickinson to William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Glock, C.K. Williams, and Frank Bidart.

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English
Pages
144

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Cover of: The Sounds of Poetry
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide
September 1, 1999, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: The sounds of poetry
The sounds of poetry: a brief guide
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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First Sentence

"What determines the stress or accent in English words and sentences?"

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Library of Congress
PN4151

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Open Library
OL7424428M
Internet Archive
soundsofpoetry00robe
ISBN 10
0374526176
ISBN 13
9780374526177
OCLC/WorldCat
42266147
Library Thing
121193
Goodreads
199395

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