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<i>A Poet's Guide to Poetry</i> brings Mary Kinzie's expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in creating a reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie shares her own successful classroom tactics-encouraging readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional. <p>The three parts of <i>A Poet's Guide to Poetry</i> lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature, through the most devious. Part I presents the style, grammar, and rhetoric of poems with a wealth of examples from various literary periods.</p> <p>Part II discusses the way t

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Author

Kinzie, Mary

Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226437392

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Reference, Fiction

Rating

3.83 / 5 (135 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14