Perrine’s Sound & Sense: An Introduction to Poetry
By Greg Johnson, Thomas R. Arp
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A best-selling introduction to poetry for more than 50 years, PERRINE'S SOUND AND SENSE: AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, 15e, succinctly covers the basics with detailed chapters on the elements of poetry, unique materials on evaluating poetry, exemplary selections, and exercises and study questions that guide understanding. Every chapter introduction bears the mark of Laurence Perrine's crisp, clean, and descriptive prose, and every poem selected as an example brings text concepts to life. With an emphasis on teaching students to read, understand, and evaluate poetry, this compact and concise anthology provides a systematic guide for discovering how and what a poem means. Its suggestions for writing also help students sort out their feelings and ideas, enabling them to assist others in sharing their experience. The 15th edition contains over 50 new poems, a new Featured Poet (Sylvia Plath), and a new poet in the Contemporary Collection (Louise Gluck).
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A best-selling introduction to poetry for more than 50 years, PERRINE'S SOUND AND SENSE: AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, 15e, succinctly covers the basics with detailed chapters on the elements of poetry, unique materials on evaluating poetry, exemplary selections, and exercises and study questions that guide understanding. Every chapter introduction bears the mark of Laurence Perrine's crisp, clean, and descriptive prose, and every poem selected as an example brings text concepts to life. With an emphasis on teaching students to read, understand, and evaluate poetry, this compact and concise anthology provides a systematic guide for discovering how and what a poem means. Its suggestions for writing also help students sort out their feelings and ideas, enabling them to assist others in sharing their experience. The 15th edition contains over 50 new poems, a new Featured Poet (Sylvia Plath), and a new poet in the Contemporary Collection (Louise Gluck).
An expansive collection of Featured Poets includes John Donne from the Renaissance, John Keats and Emily Dickinson from the 19th century, and Robert Frost and Sylvia Plath from the 20th century. Each is represented by a sufficient number of works to enable students to study them as individual artists.
The Contemporary Collection presents six or seven poems from each of five contemporary poets: Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Sharon Olds, and Pulitzer Prize-winners Natasha Trethewey and Louise Gluck.
Approximately 25 percent of the poems in the book have been added or relocated, including works by Sherman Alexie, Elizabeth Bishop, Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Countee Cullen, Emily Dickinson, Mark Doty, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Steven Dunn, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Donald Hall, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Clive James, John Keats, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stanley Kunitz, Julia Alvarez, Christopher Marlowe, Cleopatra Mathis, Judson Mitcham, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Oliver, Meghan O'Rourke, Linda Pastan, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Katha Pollitt, Christina Rossetti, Natasha Tretheway, James Wright, and William Butler Yeats.
For over 50 years, Laurence Perrine's exceptional chapters covering the elements of poetry have effectively introduced students to poetry. From "What Is Poetry?" and "How to Read a Poem" to imagery, allusion, tone, rhythm and meter, these concise chapters offer unparalleled guidance and insight to understanding poetry that remain true to Perrine's original vision -- and true to the serious study of literature.
Table of contents
- Preface.
- Professional Acknowledgments.
- Foreword to Students.
- 1. What Is Poetry?
- 2. Reading the Poem.
- 3. Denotation and Connotation.
- 4. Imagery.
- 5. Figurative Language 1: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy.
- 6. Figurative Language 2: Symbol, Allegory.
- 7. Figurative Language 3: Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement.
- 8. Allusion.
- 9. Meaning and Idea.
- 10. Tone.
- 11. Musical Devices.
- 12. Rhythm and Meter.
- 13. Sound and Meaning.
- 14. Pattern.
- 15. Evaluating Poetry 1: Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse.
- 16. Evaluating Poetry 2: Poetic Excellence.
- Part Two: WRITING ABOUT POETRY.
- Part Three: POEMS FOR FURTHER READING.
- Glossary and Index of Literary Terms.
- Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines.
- Copyrights and Acknowledgments.
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