The book of forms : a handbook of poetics / Lewis Turco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turco, Lewis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Versification.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2020]

Summary:

Now in its fifth edition, The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics continues to be the go-to reference and guide for students, teachers, and critics. A companion for poets from novice to master, The Book of Forms has been called "the poet's bible" for more than fifty years. Filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco's engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their work. Revised for today's poet, the fifth edition includes the classic rules of scansion and the useful Form-Finder Index alongside new examples of terms and prose that are essential to the study of all forms of poetry and verse. As Turco writes in the introduction, "It should go without saying that the more one knows how to do, the more one can do."

Contents:

Foreword to the fifth edition

Part I: The elements of poetry. Introduction

The typographical level

The sonic level

The sensory level

The ideational level

Chapter glossary

Part II: Form-finder index. Introduction

Specific forms

General forms

Part III: Traditional verse forms. Dramatic poetry

Lyric poetry

Narrative poetry

Bibliography

A chronology of post-modern books

Concerning verse forms.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826361899

0826361897