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1) Paperback Book Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This is a wonderful resource for anyone in love with poetry. Packed with great learning about the various closed and open forms, the use of poetic devices, and rich examples drawn from the greatest poetry ever constructed. There is a great deal about the poetic imagination and how some of the acknowledged geniuses have generated their best work. It is a book you will revisit time and time again.¤ 2) Paperback Book Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. I think this book is ok for learning wise. Its boring if you are looking for poems to read. There are a lot of missed spelling in the poems. Some are not even the same lines as the original. I read through many of the poems in the book and look through a lot online and they don´t even match. I´d never by this book if I didn´t need it for school.¤ 3) Paperback Book Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. Western Wind by John Nims and David Mason is the only textbook I´ve ever felt passionate about. I cannot imagine a better foundation for an introduction to poetic verse. Western Wind is a well-written, thorough and astonishingly sophisticated book. It has a depth of consideration of the technical features of poetry that most anthologies lack. The authors demystify poetic structure and syntax by using a wide range of poets from diverse traditions and time periods.
Western Wind´s explanations of the elements of poetry are thought provoking and relevant for aspiring poets and seasoned writers alike. It offers a practicing poet´s perspective on selection, organization, titles, phrasing and commentary. Although the book covers the mechanics thoroughly, it never lets the reader forget that poetry is an art. This is a solid, intelligent book and I highly recommend it to all aspiring poets.
¤ 4) Paperback Book Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. WESTERN WIND is an outstanding introduction to poetry. When I was an undergraduate, it was assigned as our main textbook for an introduction to poetry class. It contains information about every aspect of poetry you can think of, allowing it to serve either as a cover-to-cover introduction or as a reference manual. Since there are no images of the book, I´ve provided a bit of the book´s contents:
Chapter One: The Role of the Senses, The Specific Image
Chapter Two: Simile and Metaphor, Analogy
Chapter Three: Synecdoche, Metonymy, The Symbol, Thing-Poems, Allegory,
Chapter Four: Antipoetry, Paradox, Irony, Understatement-The Witheld Image, Overstatement
Chapter Five: The Role of Emotion, Sense and Sentimentality
Chapter Six: Living Words, Less is More
Chapter Seven: Vowels, Consonants
Chapter Eight: Language as Mimicry, A Reason for Rhyme?, Off-Rhyme, The Music of Poetry
Chapter Nine: Rhythm, Repetition as Rhythm, The Rhythm of Accent, A Note on Scansion, Iambic Pentameter, Variations on Iambic, Meter and Rhythm, Line Length
Chapter Ten: Other Syllable-Stress Rhythms, Strong-Stress Rhythms, Sprung Rhythms, A Word About Quantity, Syllabic Meter, Free Verse, Free Rhythms, The Variable Foot, Concrete Poetry, The Prose Poem
Chapter Eleven: The Sentence, Use of Connectives, Parallelism, Sentence Structure, Levels of Language, New Words, New Language
Chapter Twelve: Fixed Stanza Forms, Fixed Forms for Poems,
Chapter Thirteen: Common Sense, Uncommon Sense
Chapter Fourteen: Inspiration and Effort
As you can see, there is plenty here to sink your teeth into. Along the way, each chapter contains exercises designed to help you master the concepts you are learning in each section. Additionally, there are hundreds of examples, from great works of poetry, sprinkled throughout the pages, illustrating points and providing inspiration. To top it all off, the last two hundred pages of the book are an anthology of great poetry. The resource is amazing simply for the anthology. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning how to write better, either poetry or something else. There is much to be learned from these pages.¤ 5) Paperback Book Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This book teaches poetic technique clearly while remaining friendly and encouraging. My second-semester poetry creative writing students use this book as a text together with Michael J. Bugeja´s ART AND CRAFT OF POETRY.¤ 6) Paperback Book Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art. .¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 5-Dec-2008, 00728195969780072819595, 960-540-630-670-6X0-061-8 
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