How Poetry Works

Philip Davies Roberts' appreciation of poetry in English emphasizes spoken language as the basis of this art. Attention is given to rhythms and other sound patt... » 

Philip Davies Roberts' appreciation of poetry in English emphasizes spoken language as the basis of this art. Attention is given to rhythms and other sound patterns. The author illustrates his arguments with examples and concludes with an anthology drawn from poems written over the past 1000 years. «