Poetry Toolkit

William Harmon is the James Gordon Hanes Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. Now retired, Harmon is the editor of A Handbook to Literature, now in its 12th edition, and has published ??? ve books of original poetry and received various awards, including the Robert B. Heilman Award given by The Sewanee Review for excellence in book reviewing.

"The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers And Writers by William Harmon, provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools to read, understand and write poetry." (Writers Forum, 1 April 2011)

• Preface viiKey to Symbols xv1 The Arts of Story-Telling 12 The Arts of Character 403 The Arts of Sentiment: States of Mind and Feeling 654 The Arts of Diction 825 The Arts of Sound 109Appendix A: Simplified Phonetic Alphabet 133Appendix B: Summary of Prosody 1336 The Arts of Layout 1397 The Arts of Reaction 158Glossary 177Suggestions for Reading: A Biased Bibliography 217Acknowledgments 225Index 227