Bibliograph

A little book on form, an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry, Robert Hass

Type

Label

A little book on form, an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry, Robert Hass

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A little book on form

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

865063547

Responsibility statement

Robert Hass

Sub title

an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

adult

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