Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

by Robert Pinsky

Book Overview

Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work: studying magnificent, monumentally enduring poems and how they are made-- in terms borrowed from the "singing school" of William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium."

Robert Pinsky's headnotes for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393050688
• ISBN13: 9780393050684
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.4"