A Little Book on Form
An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 446 pages ; 24 cm
"Robert Hass--former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize--illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop,"--NoveList.
Contents:
Introduction -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- A note on numbers -- Blank verse -- Sonnet -- Reading the sonnet -- Victorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle -- A note on genre -- Ode -- Reading the ode -- Elegy -- Reading the elegy -- Satire -- Georgic -- Variable stanzas and organic form -- Difficult forms -- Collage, abstraction, Oulipo, and procedural poetics -- Mixed forms -- Prose poem -- A note on stress -- How to scan a poem -- How free verse works -- Acknowledgments -- Credits.
Subjects:
Poetry -- Authorship.
Creative writing.
Poetry -- History and criticism.
Literary form.
Creative ability.
Poetry -- Authorship.
Creative writing.
Poetry -- History and criticism.
Literary form.
Creative ability.
ISBN:
9780062332424
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Poetry Has | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/4/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446).