Seamus Heaney's rhythmic contract
By: Jason David Hall.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230574885
Subjects: Heaney, Seamus, -- 1939- -- Versification; Heaney, Seamus, -- 1939- -- Technique
Description: "While glosses on Heaney's verse forms figure more or less in critical accounts of his poetry, this is the first book to take the craft of his art as its focus. Setting out a historically informed approach to poetic form, the book places Heaney's developing versification in the context of mid-century Anglo-American theories of metre and rhythm"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: AcknowledgementsNote on Terms and ScansionIntroduction: Reading Heaney's RhythmsEmbedded Poetics'Well-Made' FoundationsRenewing Contracts: Heaney's 'Free' VerseFixed Form: The SonnetEnvoyGlossary of Selected Prosodic TermsBibliographyIndex.