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 (pages 433-446)

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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