How to Read and Understand Poetry [TTC Audio]

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How to Read and Understand Poetry [TTC Audio]
English | 1999 | 12 hrs and 20 mins | MP3 | 340 MB


Covers a range of poems, from Renaissance England to contemporary America, focusing on poetic techniques, patterns, habits, and genres, with a special concern for the three areas that define what poetry is and what distinguishes it from other kinds of literary utterance: figurative language, music and sound, and tone of voice

Two-part CD set in two containers (each 20 cm.), 6 CDs per container. Plus 1 separate "Course Guidebook."

Compact discs

Twenty-four lectures by Professor Willard Speigelman, Southern Methodist University

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Includes bibliographical references in accompanying guidebook

What to look (and listen) for in poems -- Memory and composition -- Poets look at the world -- Picturing nature -- Metaphor and metonymy I -- Metaphor and metonymy II -- Poetic tone -- The uses of sentiment -- The uses of irony -- Poetic forms and meters -- Sound effects -- Three 20th-century villanelles -- Free verse -- The English sonnet I -- The English sonnet II -- The enduring sonnet -- Poets thinking -- The greater Romantic lyric -- Poets thinking: some 20th century versions -- Portrayals of heroism -- Heroism: some 20th century versions -- Poems talking to (and for) works of art -- Echoes in poems -- Farewells and falling leaves

Professor Willard Spiegelman, Southern Methodist University

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