Literature; Structure, Sound, and Sense
Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced reader of poems, you can profit from this book's step-by-step method for understanding how a poem does what it does.
The classic text, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, Eighth Edition, continues to provide students with a comprehensive study into the principal forms of fiction, poetry, and drama.
The Instructor's Manual contains comments on each and every poem in Sound and Sense by either Larry Perrine, Greg Johnson, or Tom Arp, or some instances, all three authors.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...
Written for readers beginning a serious study of literature, the book introduces the fundamental elements of fiction, poetry, and drama in a concise and engaging way, addressing vital questions that other texts tend to ignore, such as “Is ...
Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry
The new 15th edition contains over 50 new poems, a new Featured Poet (Sylvia Plath), a new poet in the Contemporary Collection (Louise Gluck), and updated MLA Style guidelines.
This volume looks at theories and practices of hearing and producing sounds in ritual contexts, medicine, mourning, music, poetry, drama, erotics, philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics, vocality, and on the page, and shows how ancient ideas of ...
Robinson explains how poetry makes things happen through the interaction of its chosen words and forms with the reader's responses.