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A little book on form

an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry

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An edition of A little book on form (2017)

A little book on form

an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry

First edition.

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"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.

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Ecco, Ecco Press
Language
English
Pages
446

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Subjects

Creative ability, Creative writing, Literary form, Authorship, History and criticism, Poetry, Poetry, authorship, American poetry, Poetry--authorship, American poetry--history and criticism, American poetry--20th century--history and criticism, Pn1059.a9 h37 2017, 808.1

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Cover of: Little Book on Form
Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
2018, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Little Book on Form
Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
2017, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: A little book on form
A little book on form: an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry
2017, Ecco, Ecco Press
in English - First edition.
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-446).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809.1
Library of Congress
PN1059.A9 H37 2017, PN1059.A9H37 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 446 pages
Number of pages
446

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27176398M
ISBN 10
0062332422
ISBN 13
9780062332424
OCLC/WorldCat
865063547

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