An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form
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English Year 2017
Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
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
About the Author
Praise
Also by Robert Hass
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher