Hass, Robert,  1941- <br/><br/>
A LITTLE BOOK ON FORM :  An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry / 
ROBERT HASS 
 - First edition 
 - x, 446 pages :  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446). 
<br/><br/> Introduction –<br/>  One – <br/>  Two – <br/>  Three –<br/>   Four – <br/>  A note on numbers –<br/>  Blank verse – <br/>  Sonnet –<br/>  Reading the sonnet –<br/>  Victorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle – <br/>  A note on genre –  Ode –<br/>   Elegy –<br/>  Reading the elegy – <br/>  Satire – <br/><br/>  Georgic –  Variable stanzas and organic form –<br/>  Difficult forms – <br/><br/>  Collage, Abstraction, Oulipo, and Procedural Poetics--<br/><br/>  Mixed forms –<br/>   Prose poem -  A note on stress -<br/>  How to scan a poem –<br/>  How free verse works – <br/><br/>  Acknowledgments – <br/>  Credits. 
<br/><br/> "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.<br/>" ... 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780062332431  RM84.90 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poetry--Authorship<br/>Creative writing<br/>Poetry --History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Literary form<br/>Creative ability
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.1