A LITTLE BOOK ON FORM :

Hass, Robert, 1941-

A LITTLE BOOK ON FORM : An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry / ROBERT HASS - First edition - x, 446 pages : 23 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 –
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.

9780062332431 RM84.90


Poetry--Authorship
Creative writing
Poetry --History and criticism.


Literary form
Creative ability

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