Verse

An Introduction to Prosody

Charles O. Hartman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2015
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-470-65600-6 (ISBN)

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Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.

Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as poetic meter, linguistic approaches to verse, and the computer scansion of metrical poetry
Written in a clear, engaging style by a poet and teacher with more than 30 years of experience teaching the subject
Supplemented by a user-friendly website with student exercises and additional resources

Charles Hartman is Poet in Residence and Lucy Marsh Haskell ’19 Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where he teaches poetry writing, modern and contemporary poetry, and song. He is the author of seven collections of poems, most recently New & Selected Poems (2008), and critical books on free verse, jazz and poetry, and computer poetry.

List of Sidebars vii

Introduction 1

1 The Iambic Pentameter Line 7

2 Other Meters 49

3 Beyond the Line 99

4 Free Verse 151

5 Song 193

6 Advanced Topics 237

Glossary 275

Index of Poets and Poems 297

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2015
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	585 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-470-65600-X / 047065600X
ISBN-13	978-0-470-65600-6 / 9780470656006
Zustand	Neuware