An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry Hass, Robert 1941- creator author. text biography Literary form Creative ability nyu 2017 2017 First edition monographic eng

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x, 446 pages : 23 cm "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. 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. general ROBERT HASS Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446). Poetry Authorship Creative writing Poetry History and criticism 809.1 9780062332431 PPAK 191119 20191119162804.0 eng