Dai George

How to Think Like a Poet (eBook, PDF)

The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara - and how they can teach us to better understand the world around us.

How did the greatest poets in history make the world anew? And what can we learn from the magic, wisdom and humour of their poetry? From the genius of the Ancient Greeks through to the love poetry and metaphysics of the Renaissance, through to the New York poets of the 20th century, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest writers of the human age.

Through short, biographical portraits, poet and writer Dai George provides an entertaining introduction to the great works of poetry, and a welcoming guide to how we can read them. He addresses questions poets have grappled with: How can we truly describe the world? How can we express love, grief or friendship? How can poetry help us to understand justice, dreams or anger?

This book paints vivid pictures of a global selection of renowned poets throughout history: from Sappho, Li Bai and Rumi, to William Shakespeare and John Donne, to Frank O Hara, Pablo Neruda and Sylvia Plath. George also seeks to re-examine the canon, traditionally dominated by Western, white and male poets, and bring to light major figures from other important cultures and communities, including China, India and the Caribbean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399408257
• Artikelnr.: 72247491

Autorenporträt

Dai George is a poet, novelist, critic and academic. His first poetry collection, The Claims Office, was an Evening Standard book of the year and his second, titled Karaoke King, was published by Seren in June 2021. His first novel, The Counterplot, was published as an Audible Original in 2019, and he is currently working on his second. He is the former reviews editor of Poetry London and has taught poetry and creative writing for many years at various universities. He is currently Lecturer in Creative Arts and Humantieis at UCL.

His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Islands Are But Mountains: New Poetry from the United Kingdom. His criticism and non-fiction features in popular and academic forums including the Guardian, The White Review, and Cambridge Quarterly.

Alongside Sarah Howe and Vidyan Ravinthiran, George was a founding editor of the online poetry journal Prac Crit, which drew a large global readership across its five-year lifespan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 How to Think Like Homer 2 How to Think Like Sappho 3 How to
Think Like Li Bai 4 How to Think Like Jalal al-Din Rumi 5 How to Think Like
Dante Alighieri 6 How to Think Like Geoffrey Chaucer 7 How to Think Like
William Shakespeare 8 How to Think Like John Donne 9 How to Think Like John
Milton 10 How to Think Like Matsuo Basho 11 How to Think Like William
Wordsworth 12 How to Think Like Walt Whitman 13 How to Think Like Emily
Dickinson 14 How to Think Like Rabindranath Tagore 15 How to Think Like T.
S. Eliot 16 How to Think Like Langston Hughes 17 How to Think Like Pablo
Neruda 18 How to Think Like Elizabeth Bishop 19 How to Think Like Aimé
Césaire 20 How to Think Like Dylan Thomas 21 How to Think Like Frank O'Hara
22 How to Think Like Sylvia Plath 23 How to Think Like Audre Lorde 24 How
to Think Like a Contemporary Poet Acknowledgements Permissions Index

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Introduction
1 How to Think Like Homer
2 How to Think Like Sappho
3 How to Think Like Li Bai
4 How to Think Like Jalal al-Din Rumi
5 How to Think Like Dante Alighieri
6 How to Think Like Geoffrey Chaucer
7 How to Think Like William Shakespeare
8 How to Think Like John Donne
9 How to Think Like John Milton
10 How to Think Like Matsuo Basho
11 How to Think Like William Wordsworth
12 How to Think Like Walt Whitman
13 How to Think Like Emily Dickinson
14 How to Think Like Rabindranath Tagore
15 How to Think Like T. S. Eliot
16 How to Think Like Langston Hughes
17 How to Think Like Pablo Neruda
18 How to Think Like Elizabeth Bishop
19 How to Think Like Aimé Césaire
20 How to Think Like Dylan Thomas
21 How to Think Like Frank O'Hara
22 How to Think Like Sylvia Plath
23 How to Think Like Audre Lorde
24 How to Think Like a Contemporary Poet
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Index

Rezensionen

An entertaining guide to the rhyme and reason of poetry… capacious and curious. George has an admirable ability to get to the heart of things in just a few lines. Dai George distils a lifetime's poetic thinking and reading into this warm, accessible book.