02102nam a22003377i 4500 175002 175002 PPAK 20191119162804.0 191119t20172017nyu g 000 0bengod 9780062332431 RM84.90 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 809.1 809.1 HAS G Hass, Robert, 1941- author. A LITTLE BOOK ON FORM : An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry / ROBERT HASS First edition New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] ©2017 x, 446 pages : 23 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume 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. Poetry Authorship Creative writing Poetry History and criticism. Literary form Creative ability ddc B 0 0 PPAK G 2019-11-24 809.1 HAS A01619840 2019-11-24 00:00:00 B 0 0 PPAK G 2019-11-24 809.1 HAS A01619841 2019-11-24 00:00:00 B