Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems and Its Literary Significance

By Edward D. Snyder

Book Overview

An analysis of the psychological effect of word arrangement in various well-known poems.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512807435
• ISBN13: 9781512807431
• Release Date: January 1930
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A different view of poetry.

I purchased this book as part of a course in the Fort Worth Hypnosis Institute. However, it is also a great addition to how to write poetry. A paragraph of the preface by Edward D. Snyder explains the book's purpose best: The first four chapters of this volume propose and support a certain idea about poetry, while the remaining chapters make practical applications of the idea to individual poems and to topics of a more general nature. I hope that people who read poetry for the sheer love of it, as well as those who are teachers and professional critics, will welcome this study of the trance-inducing effect that a few poems seem to extract on the reader, and will share my interest in extending the study to poems that are less obviously hypnotic. Edward D. Snyder suggests that some Poetry does spell weaving like listening to a piece of music that stirs up an old emotion. After reading this book, you will not look at poetry the same way again.