A little book on form : an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry / Robert Hass.
Material type:
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062332431
- PN1059.A9 H37 2018
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | PN1059.A9 H37 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000101944 | ||
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | PN1059.A9 H37 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.2 | Available | 30020000101952 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446).
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.
"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.
" ... Hass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experiences of human thought and feeling in language"--Jacket.