UID:
edocfu_9959243236702883
Format:
1 online resource (168 p.)
Edition:
4th ed.
ISBN:
0-300-21082-5
Content:
Poet John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse in this classic text, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this fourth edition, J.D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why the book has played such an important role in the education of young poets and student scholars.
Note:
Schemes -- Verse systems -- Accentual-syllabic verse -- Versification -- Accentual meters -- Pure syllabic verse -- Free verse -- Aberrant forms -- Ode forms -- Quantitative verse -- Classical meters and their adaptations -- Repetitive structures -- Comical schemes -- Rhetorical schemes -- Variation and mimesis -- More on rhyming -- Uncommon schemes.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300206291
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1322094608
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300210828
