How to revise your own poems,: A primer for poets,

by Anne Hamilton

Written in a readable question-and-answer style, HOW TO REVISE YOUR OWN POEMS is a comprehensive work-table guide for beginning poets. With it they can test their own poems for salability, at the same time reinforcing their knowledge of the basic rules of poetry technique.

In her experience as a writer, teacher and critic of poetry, Miss Hamilton discovered that a sound grounding in the rules of expression is a necessity if poems are to be accepted for publication and if they are to be clearly understood by the reader. Working on the basis, she has outlined in HOW TO REVISE YOUR OWN POEMS the principal questions which she uses in criticizing manuscripts, and in the detailed answers to these she has covered a large field of technique. There are chapters on inspiration, rhythm, riming (sic) word choice, grammar, figures of speech, patterns, and titles.

HOW TO REVISE YOUR OWN POEMS will kindle poetic imagination, and will equip the reader with a handy, easy-to-use set of tools for the writing of publishable poetry.

85 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1945

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