What is poetry? : language and memory in the poems of the world /
"Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into t...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015
Cambridge ; New York : 2015 Cambridge, United Kingdom : 2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- Poetry
- Form
- Language
- Metre
- Rhyme and alliteration
- Parallelism
- Psychology and poetry