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A First Book Of Poetics: For Colleges And Advanced Schools by Martha Hale Shackford. This concise primer is designed for a class in the outline history of English literature and provides straightforward, clearly worded definitions, illustrations, and recommendations for further study. It aims to establish elementary facts about poetry and then guide students to analyze individual poems using inductive methods, building a broader understanding of poetics. The book surveys versification, explaining meter and feet from monometer through hexameter and beyond, with examples and notes on stress, foot structure (iambus, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee), and various notation systems. It covers rhyme, end-rime, and different rhyme types, as well as imagery and figures such as metaphor, simile, personification, and hyperbole, among others. Later sections introduce major literary types—epic, ballad, allegory, satire, and dramatic forms (tragedy, comedy, melodrama, mystery plays, morality, masque, eclogue)—and lyric forms, including sonnets and odes. A bibliography and guidance for further study complete this foundational text on poetics.
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