The Poetry Toolkit : For Readers and Writers (Paperback)

Preface vii

Key to Symbols xv

1 The Arts of Story-Telling 1

2 The Arts of Character 40

3 The Arts of Sentiment: States of Mind and Feeling 65

4 The Arts of Diction 82

5 The Arts of Sound 109

Appendix A: Simplified Phonetic Alphabet 133

Appendix B: Summary of Prosody 133

6 The Arts of Layout 139

7 The Arts of Reaction 158

Glossary 177

Suggestions for Reading: A Biased Bibliography 217

Acknowledgments 225

Index 227