01991nam a22003017i 4500003000500000005001700005008004100022020003800063040002500101082001400126100003400140245009700174250001800271264007500289264001100364300002600375336002100401337002500422338002300447504005700470505056300527520048001090650002301570650002101593650003601614655001801650655002101668PPAK20191119162804.0191119t20172017nyu g 000 0bengod a9780062332431cRM84.90qpaperback aPPAKbengcPPAKerda04223a809.11 aHass, Robert,d1941-eauthor.10aA LITTLE BOOK ON FORM :bAn Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry /cROBERT HASS aFirst edition 1aNew York, NY : bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, c[2017] 4c©2017 ax, 446 pages :c23 cm 2rdacontentatext 2rdamediaaunmediated 2rdacarrieravolume aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 433-446). tIntroduction – tOne – tTwo – tThree – t Four – tA note on numbers – tBlank verse – tSonnet – tReading the sonnet – tVictorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle – tA note on genre –tOde – tElegy – tReading the elegy – tSatire – tGeorgic –tVariable stanzas and organic form – tDifficult forms – tCollage, Abstraction, Oulipo, and Procedural Poetics-- tMixed forms – tProse poem -tA note on stress - tHow to scan a poem – tHow free verse works – tAcknowledgments – tCredits. a"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.10aPoetryvAuthorship20aCreative writing20aPoetry vHistory and criticism.7 aLiterary form7 aCreative ability