Author: Richard HileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
English Grammar, Style, and Poetry
Author: Richard HileyQuestions and exercises adapted to Hiley's English grammar, style, and poetry
Author: Richard HileyThe Well-Crafted Sentence
Author: Nora BaconPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 145764133X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Grounded in the art of writing, The Well-Crafted Sentence zeroes in on the building block of great prose: the sentence. With a friendly, approachable, and elegant tone, Nora Bacon shows the benefits of attention to style and offers a range of revision strategies that give students the tools to strengthen and develop their writing. Giving students the opportunity to see successful rhetorical choices at work in writing they admire, the text includes a brief anthology of readings by ten accomplished stylists, five of them new to this edition. Examples throughout the text are drawn from these model pieces, as are integrated exercises that help students apply concepts to their own writing. Additionally, a new first chapter, Approaches to Style, introduces students to the concept of style. Affordable and brief, The Well-Crafted Sentence works as a core classroom text or as a supplement.
Grammar of Poetry
Author: Matt WhitlingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781591281191
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Questions and Exercises Adapted to Hiley's English Grammar, Style, and Poetry, Progressively Arranged, and Divided Into Appropriate Lessons; with Exercises on the Analysis of Sentences ... (Key)
Author: Richard HileyPoetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001
Author: Carolyn ForchéPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347664
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.
A Poetry Handbook
Author: Mary OliverPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156724005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.
Stylistics
Author: Lesley JeffriesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521405645
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An introduction to the study of style in language, offering practical advice on how to stylistically analyse texts.
The Elements of Academic Style
Author: Eric HayotPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231537417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious students, newly minted Ph.D.'s, and established professors shape their work and develop their voices. Hayot does more than explain the techniques of academic writing. He aims to adjust the writer's perspective, encouraging scholars to think of themselves as makers and doers of important work. Scholarly writing can be frustrating and exhausting, yet also satisfying and crucial, and Hayot weaves these experiences, including his own trials and tribulations, into an ethos for scholars to draw on as they write. Combining psychological support with practical suggestions for composing introductions and conclusions, developing a schedule for writing, using notes and citations, and structuring paragraphs and essays, this guide to the elements of academic style does its part to rejuvenate scholarship and writing in the humanities.
Strict Forms
Author: The Barking FoxesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781789553666
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Strict Forms is an anthology of poems written by members of the Barking Foxes Poetry Group. For two years we have studied poetic forms from all periods in history, and this collection reflects the efforts of the Members in absorbing and interpreting numerous genres and trying to write something in accordance with the constraints of a pre-determined style of poem.