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Title: The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
ISBN: 0393321789
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Publicate Date: 2001-04
Publish: 2001-04
List Price: $18.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Fascinating
Being fairly new to poetry, I purchased this book as an introduction to poetic forms, and it does not disappoint. The authors have cultivated a fantastic guide to many of the more popular forms of the modern era, and a few less popular forms. I found the chapters on the Villanelle and on Blank Verse to alone be worth the minimal price tag. The descriptions are terse but wholly concise. The choices the authors made for examples are so perfect that this book could work simply as an anthology of great poems. It is not, though, an all-around introduction to poetry, meter is barely touched upon, and some lesser forms are not given mention, but as books on important poetic forms go, I could hardly recommend another.
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2: Norton Anthology of Poetry Forms
Excellent book. All the poetic forms analyzed according to form, historical developed, and their modern application. Each chapter offers many examples, again from the past for the present. A great aid for both literary aficionados and writers.
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3: Plenty of poems-very little instruction
If you are looking for teaching on the mechanics of different forms this book is about fives pages from being a door stop. Don't waste your money.
If all you need are examples of the different forms this is your book.
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4: A Good Intro
This was a good introduction to poetic forms, giving clear definitions of villanelles, sestinas, sonnets, etc. As a matter of personal choice, I found some of the poems not particularly apt for the poetic form they were trying to define: why was Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" in the "Pastoral" chapter and not the "Ode" chapter? The editors seemed to make arbitrary choices that were sometimes off-kilter. Otherwise, the selection of poems was quite good. As for the complaints about Eurocentrism...let's be honest if not politically correct: nearly all poetic forms in classical poetry were created by Eurocentrist poets. And this book is about classical forms of poetry and how contemporary and modern poets adapted to those forms.
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5: for high school
While objections might be appropriate for high-end poets and advanced university students, I have found this book quite helpful at an introductory high school level. It is short and to the point, and does not overly discourage a young student trying to become acquainted with traditional poetic forms.
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