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Title
A way with words
Type
NonMusicAudio
Monograph
Language
English
Classification
LCC: RZC 0841
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Summary
Wheaton College English professor Michael D.C. Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future, addressing such poets as Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, and explaining in simple terms what poetry is while following its development through the centuries.
Table Of Contents
What is poetry?
Oral tradition
The roots of the tree: Anglo-Saxon poetry
Of meters and of rhyming craftiily: Middle English and the development of rhymed poetry
Early Renaissance: An exploration of form
Metaphysicals, Milton
The hard stuff: The eighteenth century and the influence of classical learning
Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge
Later Romantics: Byron, Shelley, and Keats
Victorians!
American poetry and the development of free verse
Modernism
Late Modernism
Poetry now.
Authorized Access Point
Drout, Michael D. C., 1968- A way with words