The Sound Sense of Poetry
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The Sound Sense of Poetry

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The Sound Sense of Poetry

About this book

What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond to them? Acclaimed poet Peter Robinson brings his knowledge of poetic art to the understanding of the reader's contribution in enabling poetry to play its part in life. Emphasising the value of individual writers' and readers' interactions, together with such key matters as meter and rhythm, voicing and form, rhyme and syntax, Robinson shows how poems engage in speech performances such as promising, justifying, excusing, and explaining - including the telling of truths. Illustrated with detailed readings of poems by, among others, Jonson, Marvell, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Dickinson, Kipling, Basil Bunting, Frank O'Hara, Tony Harrison, and Denise Riley, this book shows how important poetry is as a means to do things with words and make things happen.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Sound Sense
  9. Chapter 2 Reading Techniques
  10. Chapter 3 Meter, Rhythm and Rhyme
  11. Chapter 4 Forming Voice, Voicing Form
  12. Chapter 5 Intelligence Disabling
  13. Chapter 6 Sounding a Subject
  14. Chapter 7 Burdens of Sound
  15. Chapter 8 Keeping Promises
  16. Chapter 9 Responding as Uptake
  17. Chapter 10 A Sense of Poetry
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index