Format:
Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Read-along
Title:
A way with words. IV [sound recording] : understanding poetry / Michael D.C. Drout.
Author:
Drout, Michael D. C., 1968-
Call Number:
808.1 Drout CD BOOK
Publisher, Date:
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2008.
Description:
7 sound discs (ca. 8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (120 p. : ill.).
Summary:
Wheaton College English professor Michael D.C. Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future, addressing such poets as Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, and explaining in simple terms what poetry is while following its development through the centuries.
Series:
Modern scholar
Modern scholar.
Subjects:
English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- History and criticism.
Poetics.
English language -- Versification.
Unabridged audiobooks.
Nonfiction audiobooks.
Genre:
Audiobooks.
Other Title:
Understanding poetry
Contents:
What is poetry? -- Oral tradition -- The roots of the tree: Anglo-Saxon poetry -- Of meters and of rhyming crafily: Middle English and the development of rhymed poetry -- Early Renaissance: An exploration of form -- Metaphysicals, Milton -- The hard stuff: The eighteenth century and the influence of classical learning -- Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge -- Later Romantics: Byron, Shelley, and Keats -- Victorians! -- American poetry and the development of free verse -- Modernism -- Late Modernism -- Poetry now.
ISBN:
9781436129206 (sound discs)
9781436129213 (guide)