A LITTLE BOOK ON FORM : An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry / ROBERT HASS

By:

Hass, Robert, 1941- [author.]

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780062332431

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DDC classification:

23 809.1

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Book	Perpustakaan Alor Setar		RFIDTI	Pinjaman Dewasa	809.1 HAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			A01619840
	Book	Perpustakaan Alor Setar		RFIDTI	Pinjaman Dewasa	809.1 HAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			A01619841

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.

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