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This introduction, which is designed with writer and reader in mind, looks at the variety of poetic practice in English and discusses, in the simplest and most approachable manner, the character of different poetic lines and forms. What is metre, anyway, and is it essential to our definition of poetry? What is an iambic line, and is the something important to know? What is a trochee, and is it something inferior to an iamb? What are couplets, quatrains, ottava rima and sonnets? Are they out-moded forms? Is there any such thing as a proper training for a poet? Is light verse the enemy of true poetry, or is it a kind of poetry? And what makes a great song lyric? Are great song lyrics poems, or do they belong to some different category? Is verse drama a thing of the past? Does a composer need a librettist in order to make an opera - or could one do just as well with randomly chosen texts?
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Brad Phillips
reviewed An introduction to English poetry on September 21, 2017
An introduction to English poetry
An Introduction to the characteristics and properties of English Poetry: this is a book about metre and poetic technique, not a primer or a chronology. James Fenton concisely summarises the fundamentals and, as a poet himself, shares his insights. Concepts like iamb, trochee and accent (as distinguished from 'stress') are clearly elaborated with helpful examples of usage from a wide range of poets and periods. It is delightful that a work about poetry should read so beautifully, not only because of words like choriamb, anapaest, and amphibrach, but also as a result of Fenton's crisp and stately style.
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