Format:
XXII, 142 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
4. ed.
ISBN:
0300206291
,
9780300206296
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
Content:
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
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Lyrik
;
Metrik
