The Poetry Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained - DK Big Ideas - Dk - Books - Dorling Kindersley Ltd - 9780241566237 - September 21, 2023
In case cover and title do not match, the title is correct

The Poetry Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained - DK Big Ideas

Dk

Price
$ 20.99

Ordered from remote warehouse

Expected delivery Jan 3 - 14, 2025
Christmas presents can be returned until 31 January

Our customers say:

14-day return policy in accordance with European consumer protection law
Top ranking on Trustpilot
Add to your iMusic wish list

The Poetry Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained - DK Big Ideas

Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems ever written, and the poetic geniuses who wrote them. The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book takes you on a fascinating journey through time to explore more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works. Discover poems in all their many guises, from the epics of the ancient world through Renaissance sonnets to modernist masterpieces such as The Waste Land, and the key works of the last 50 years - such as And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou and Derek Walcott's Omeros.

Using the Big Ideas series' trademark combination of clear explanation, witty infographics, and inspirational quotes, The Poetry Book unlocks the key ideas, themes, imagery, and structural techniques behind even the most complex of poems, in clear and simple terms, setting each work in its historical, social, cultural, and literary context. Delve into the works of Dante, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Dickinson, Eliot, and Neruda with in-depth literary analysis and fascinating biographies. Find out what odes, ballads, and allegories are.

Trace recurring motifs, explore imagery, and discover how rhyme and rhythm work. From The Iliad to Seamus Heaney's Casualty, The Poetry Book is essential reading for lovers of poetry and aspiring poets alike.

336 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 21, 2023
ISBN13 9780241566237
Publishers Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Pages 336
Dimensions 202 × 240 × 24 mm   ·   1.13 kg
Language English  
Show all

More by Dk

Others have also bought

See all of Dk ( e.g. Hardcover Book , Paperback Book , Book , Board book and Flashcards )