{"product_id":"the-art-of-poetry-how-to-read-a-poem-hardcover","title":"The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShira Wolosky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eShira Wolosky Weiss\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, Shira Wolosky provides a dazzling introduction to an art whose emphasis on verbal music, wordplay, and dodging the merely literal makes it at once the most beguiling and most challenging of literary forms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA uniquely comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to poetic form, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e moves progressively from smaller units such as the word, line, and image, to larger features such as verse forms and voice. In fourteen engaging, beautifully written chapters, Wolosky explores in depth how poetry does what it does while offering brilliant readings of some of the finest lyric poetry in the English and American traditions. Both readers new to poetry and poetry veterans will be moved and enlightened as Wolosky interprets work by William Shakespeare, John Donne, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, and others. The book includes a superb two-chapter discussion of the sonnet's form and history, and represents the first poetry guide to introduce gender as a basic element of analysis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn contrast to many existing guides, which focus on selected formal aspects like metrics or present definitions and examples in a handbook format, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e covers the full landscape of poetry's subtle art while showing readers how to comprehend a poetic text in all its dimensions. Other special features include Wolosky's consideration of historical background for the developments she discusses, and the way her book is designed to acquaint or reacquaint readers with the core of the lyric tradition in English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLively, accessible, and original, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e will be a rich source of inspiration for students, general readers, and those who teach poetry.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShira Wolosky\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English and American Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 8.52 x 5.81 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703744655667,"sku":"9780195138702","price":150.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/vkM4ldNqZO9780195138702.webp?v=1763337660","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-art-of-poetry-how-to-read-a-poem-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}