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Types of poetry |
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The
academic institutions have put students and poetry lovers
truly in their debt by providing a staggering amount of poetry
online. Click on the sites listed opposite to see the many
types of poetry available – increasingly in foreign languages.
For contemporary poetry, try first the reviews and and articles
listed under Book News (particularly those in Atlantic
Online and The
New York Times) or read the better poetry ezines.
The larger internet bookshops - Amazon
and Barnes and
Noble - also carry reviews, but you'd be advised to actually
read the poetry first. |
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Foreign poetry |
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The appreciation of any poetry requires prolonged
effort, and the task is doubly difficult when the language
is not English. Why bother? Firstly, as the old adage puts
it, poetry is what gets lost in the translation. However
skilful, a translation can only be partial representative
of the original, and translation has become a contentious
subject. Which means that even if you only read through
parallel texts (as in S. Burnshaw's The Poem Itself:
1995) you can still gain some irreplaceable experience
of a foreign culture. You may also understand better the
lives of individual poets, and widen your conceptions of
poetry and its resources: matters essential for the serious
poet.
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Poetry ezines and magazines |
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The glory of the internet is the opportunity afforded
everyone to publish all types of poetry. Try starting with
the ezline listings opposite, and progress as indications
suggest. Quality varies. Poetry
kit and poetry
machine list sites of more traditional poetry, and preferences
are also listed by poets
featured on webdelsol. Well regarded ezines include
SolHome,
Melic
Reviewand A fuller list is given in PoetryMagic.
We don't list individual poet's sites (there are just too
many) but you can find them by a. noting the authors of poems
you like, and b. conducting an Internet search, either with
individual search engines or with Copernic. |
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Experimental poetry: audio and
visual |
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Poets have only begun to exploit the multimedia possibilities
of the Internet, a doorway to many new and varied types of
poetry. The more ambitious creations require mastery of Flash
or Java
/ Javascript,
but workmanlike sites can be built with one of the advanced
HTML-authoring packages: Dreamweaver
or GoLive.
Admirable use of Javascript can be found at ablemuse
and sites devoted to visual and concrete poetry include Poems
that Go, Kaldron,
Light
& Dust Poets, Ubuweb, and
Digital
Poetry. Also welcome is
the increasing appearance, on individual
poet's and magazine
sites, of real audio and video recordings. |
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you want to learn more, then consider taking an eLearning course
online or at your local university. It'll help your appreciation
and enjoyment enormously. Click the button below for more details. |
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