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In The Art of Poetry, 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. A uniquely comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to poetic form, The Art of Poetry 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. In contrast to many existing guides, which focus on selected formal aspects like metrics or present definitions and examples in a handbook format, The Art of Poetry 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. Lively, accessible, and original, The Art of Poetry will be a rich source of inspiration for students, general readers, and those who teach poetry.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• The Art of Poetry(p. 2)
• 1 Individual Words(p. 3)
• 2 Syntax and the Poetic Line(p. 17)
• 3 Images: Simile and Metaphor(p. 29)
• 4 Metaphor and the Sonnet(p. 41)
• 5 Verse Forms: The Sonnet(p. 53)
• 6 Poetic Conventions(p. 69)
• 7 More Verse Forms(p. 81)
• 8 Personification(p. 93)
• 9 Poetic Voice(p. 105)
• 10 Gender and Poetic Voice(p. 119)
• 11 Poetic Rhythm: Meter(p. 135)
• 12 Poetic Rhythm: Sound and Rhyme(p. 151)
• 13 Rhetoric: More Tropes(p. 167)
• 14 Incomplete Figures and the Art of Reading(p. 181)
• Glossary(p. 195)
• Bibliographical Backgrounds(p. 201)
• Index of Poems(p. 217)
• Index of Poets(p. 221)
• Index of Terms and Topics(p. 223)

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Library Journal Review

Wolosky's guide is designed to introduce readers to poetry, the art form she calls "verbal music." In 14 chapters, she defines the small units of poetic form word, line, and image before moving into larger definitions of verse form and voice. The book includes a two-chapter discussion of the sonnet's form and history, as well as a discussion of gender as an element of analysis. To illustrate her theses, Wolosky (English and American literature, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem; Language Mysticism) interprets poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Frost, and Plath, as well as many other often-anthologized poets. The glossary is a useful reference tool, but the overall tone, while accessible, is academic, and a more contemporary listing of poets would have been better for the novice. General readers and poetry lovers will be better served by a good anthology, such as Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby's Poetry Speaks (LJ 10/15/01). Recommended for academic libraries only. Pam Kingsbury, Florence, AL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Shira Wolosky is Professor of English and American Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.