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Author Aitchison, James

Title New Guide to Poetry and Poetics
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (309 pages)
Series Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Ser. ; v. 35
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Ser
Contents Intro; New Guide to Poetry and Poetics; Preface; Contents; 1 The Creative Impulse; How Poems Begin; Innateness: Conclusions and Nonconscious; Jung, Freud and Creativity; Creativity and Chaos; 2 Imaggination; The Poetic Imagination; Poetry and Inspiration; The Poet's Muse; Childhood, Memory and Imagination; 3 The Sacred Impulse; Poetry and Religion; Religion in some Twentieth-Century Poetry; A Biology of Religion; 4 Poetic Vision; Visionary Poetry; Mystery in Poetry; Myth in Poetry; Beaty, Horror and Truth in Poetry; 5 Madness; Madness and Poetry; Madness, Sanity and Confessional Poetry
6 Poetic Voice7 Emotion in Poetry; 8 Thought in Poetry; 9 Meaning; Meaning in Poetry; Recognising Meaning; Subject, Theme and Experience in Poetry; 10 The Poet's Role; Poet or Citizen?; The Poet and Society; Poetic Persona; 11 A Fellowshio of Poets; 12 Language; The Language of Poetry; Poetic Diction; Poetry and Contemporary Speech; 13 Poetry and Music; 14 Technique; Poetry: Craft and Art; Form and Content; 15 Imagery; 16 Rhyme; 17 Rhythm; Some Misconeceptions; Fixity and Flux; Arrhythmia and Free Verse; Punctuating Rhythm; 18 Poetry and Reality; 19 Reading Poetry; Poetry and the Reader
The Poet as ReaderThe Critic as Reader; Poet and Reader; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Topics
Notes Print version record
Subject Poetics.
Literature -- Philosophy.
Literature -- Philosophy
Poetics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789401210133
9401210136