"What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond to them? Acclaimed poet Peter Robinson brings his knowledge of poetic art to the understanding of the reader's contribution in enabling poetry to play its part in life. Emphasising the value of individual writers' and readers' interactions, together with such key matters as meter and rhythm, voicing and form, rhyme and syntax, Robinson shows how poems engage in speech performances such as promising, justifying, excusing, and explaining - including the telling of truths. Illustrated with detailed readings of poems by, among others, Jonson, Marvell, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Dickinson, Kipling, Basil Bunting, Frank O'Hara, Tony Harrison, and Denise Riley, this book shows how important poetry is as a means to do things with words and make things happen."--Back cover

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SOUND SENSE OF POETRY : volume 1

Peter Robinson

University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations

Cambridge Library Collection

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Place of publication not identified, 2018

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2018

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How do reader and poet work together to create meaning, and how does this allow poetry to make its mark in the world? Acclaimed poet and critic Peter Robinson uses extremely fine-grained readings of both canonical and contemporary poems to make a case for their truth-telling value in culture.

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