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Rhyme's reason : a guide to English verse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollander, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 p.)
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Poet John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse in this classic text, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this fourth edition, J.D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why the book has played such an important role in the education of young poets and student scholars.
- Contents:
- Schemes
- Verse systems
- Accentual-syllabic verse
- Versification
- Accentual meters
- Pure syllabic verse
- Free verse
- Aberrant forms
- Ode forms
- Quantitative verse
- Classical meters and their adaptations
- Repetitive structures
- Comical schemes
- Rhetorical schemes
- Variation and mimesis
- More on rhyming
- Uncommon schemes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-21082-5
- OCLC:
- 890443147
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