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A way With Words : Understanding Poetry IV

Drout, Michael D. C., 1968- Book on CD - 2008 BOCD 809.1 Dr Oversize None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Lecture 1. What is poetry? -- Lecture 2. Oral tradition -- Lecture 3. The roots of the tree: Anglo-Saxon poetry -- Lecture 4. Of meters and of rhyming craftily: Middle English and the development of rhymed poetry -- Lecture 5. Early Renaissance: an exploration of form -- Lecture 6. Metaphysicals, Milton -- Lecture 7. The hard stuff: the eighteenth century and the influence of classical learning -- Lecture 8. Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge -- Lecture 9. Later romantics: Byron, Shelley, and Keats -- Lecture 10. Victorians! -- Lecture 11. American poetry and the development of free verse -- Lecture 12. Modernism -- Lecture 13. Late modernism -- Lecture 14. Poetry now.
Professor Michael D.C. Drout, lecturer.
In part IV of this fascinating series, Professor Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future. Addressing such poetic luminaries as Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, these lectures explain in simple terms what poetry is while following its development through the centuries.

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SERIES
The Modern scholar.



PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 7 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (120 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.)
Language: English
Format: Book on CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781436129206 (set) :
1436129206 (set) :
9781436129213 (course guide)
1436129214 (course guide)

SUBJECTS
Poetry -- History and criticism.
Poetics.