{"product_id":"invitation-to-poetry-isbn-9781405131643","title":"Invitation to Poetry","description":"For anyone who has ever wanted to become fluent in the language of poetry, Invitation to Poetry will prove an essential guide. This book: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTeaches the serious student how to ‘speak poetry’ through an in-depth examination of the traditional features and technical vocabulary of poetic language;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines British and American materials from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in order to give students a sense of a range of different period styles, poetic projects, and strategies;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplicitly examines, questions and challenges the relationship of poetry to literary periods and canons;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers the technical tools essential for close reading and interpretation across a broad chronological spectrum.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Conceptual Syntax: An Introduction to the Way Poems Invite Different Approaches and Position Readers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Speaking Poetry: Night Pieces and Intertextual Conversations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Gestures and Subjects of the Sonnet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Uses of Meter and Rhythm in the Sonnet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Form of the Voice: Tone and Diction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Modes, Odes, and Odic Gestures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. What is Pastoral?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Traditions, Legacies, and Individual Talents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Forests and Trees, or Playing with Poems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e “One could not find a better guide than Steinman (Reed College) for developing a sound approach to reading poems. This eclecticism in examples proves to readers how a rigorous approach to reading can allow one to tackle a variety of texts from different eras. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book is best suited to those embarking on literary studies or creative writing, particularly poetry. Highly recommended.” (\u003ci\u003eChoice Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2008) \u003cb\u003eLisa M. Steinman\u003c\/b\u003e is the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. A practicing poet, she has also written two highly regarded books on poetry: \u003ci\u003eMasters of Repetition: Poetry, Culture, and Work in Thomson, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Emerson\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and \u003ci\u003eMade In America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets\u003c\/i\u003e (1989). Her work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Rockefeller Foundation.  For anyone who has ever wanted to become fluent in the language of poetry, Invitation to Poetry will prove an essential guide. This book: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTeaches the serious student how to ‘speak poetry’ through an in-depth examination of the traditional features and technical vocabulary of poetic language;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines British and American materials from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in order to give students a sense of a range of different period styles, poetic projects, and strategies;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplicitly examines, questions and challenges the relationship of poetry to literary periods and canons;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers the technical tools essential for close reading and interpretation across a broad chronological spectrum.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  “To the casual reader, Steinman explains how poems work; to the critical reader, why they keep working. Ranging over several centuries, styles, genres, and modes of English verse, \u003ci\u003eInvitation to Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e provides both the tools needed to ‘play with poems’ and a manual in their use.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–C. D. Blanton, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e“Lisa Steinman’s \u003ci\u003eInvitation to Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, with its effortless scholarship and engaging manner, offers a wonderful introduction to the study of poetry. This is a beautifully-written book which offers many pleasures, and for those who read attentively, a tremendous depth of reference underpinning its argument.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989476327653,"sku":"NP9781405131643","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405131643.jpg?v=1761784255","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/invitation-to-poetry-isbn-9781405131643","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}