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How do I learn more about the techniques involved in poetry? Any classics or great books anyone can recommend?
by simplegeek 7y ago
How do I learn more about the techniques involved in poetry? Any classics or great books anyone can recommend?
- billfruit 7y agoI would recommend getting a good anthology like Palgrave's or the Arthur Quiller-Couch, or for Americans Robert Penn Warren and working through them.
- simplegeek 7y agoThank you so much, I didn't know about those.
- jfengel 7y agoThere's another good article on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21085940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21085940 It's a less concrete essay about the technical specifics, but it communicates a lot about how poets think about their word choices. (Ignore the confusing title.)
- sramsay 7y agoTake a look at Judson Jerome's The Poet's Handbook. Very readable introduction to English prosody, as well as a variety of other technical aspects of poetry.
- jihadjihad 7y agoI'd second the other commenter's suggestion of an anthology. For a comprehensive anthology with a terrific reference section where you can learn the "technical details" of poetry, I'd recommend The Norton Anthology of Poetry.