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10) Collected prose
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The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmodern in poetry and form the basis of most postwar free verse. The Collected Prose brings together in one volume the works published for the most part between...
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This collection of essays locates Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. Philosophers, classicists, and literary critics connect the Poetics to Aristotle's psychology and history, ethics and politics. There are discussions of plot and the unity of action, character and fictional necessity, catharsis, pity and fear, and aesthetic pleasure. -- Back cover.
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For decades Lewis Turco's The Book of Forms has been standard in the libraries of writers, teachers, scholars, and others who care about the craft of poetry. Now Turco has expanded and updated the poet's bible once again, this time incorporating a collection of odd and invented forms, which adds many interesting ancient and modern prosodies and forms with new examples written by contemporary poets old and young.
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This compact handbook includes definitions and articles that emphasize genres, prosody, poetic terms, rhetorical figures and topics such as poetry reading and the relationship of linguistics to poetry. Twenty-nine new and revised articles have been added, including entries on cycle, psalm, equivalence, relative stress principle, rhythm, versification, and an entry summarizing theories of poetry. Arranged alphabetically by topic in two columns, the...
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