A little book on form
Subtitle: an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry
By: Robert Hass
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ecco; Ecco Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780062332424
Subjects: Creative ability; Creative writing; Literary form; Authorship; History and criticism; Poetry
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-446).
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: One --; title: Two --; title: Three --; title: Four --; title: A note on numbers --; title: Blank verse --; title: Sonnet --; title: Reading the sonnet --; title: Victorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle --; title: A note on genre --; title: Ode --; title: Reading the ode --; title: Elegy --; title: Reading the elegy --; title: Satire --; title: Georgic --; title: Variable stanzas and organic form --; title: Difficult forms --; title: Collage, abstraction, Oulipo, and procedural poetics --; title: Mixed forms --; title: Prose poem --; title: A note on stress --; title: How to scan a poem --; title: How free verse works --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Credits.