A little book on form : an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry /
Hass, Robert,
A little book on form : an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry / Robert Hass. - First edition. - x, 446 pages ; 24 cm
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.
9780062332424 0062332422
2017299178
Poetry--Authorship.
Creative writing.
Poetry--History and criticism.
Literary form.
Creative ability.
PN1059.A9 / H37 2017
809.1
A little book on form : an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry / Robert Hass. - First edition. - x, 446 pages ; 24 cm
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.
9780062332424 0062332422
2017299178
Poetry--Authorship.
Creative writing.
Poetry--History and criticism.
Literary form.
Creative ability.
PN1059.A9 / H37 2017
809.1