| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- A Note on Numbers -- Blank Verse -- Sonnet -- Reading the Sonnet -- Victorian Medievalism: Sestina and Villanelle -- A Note on Genre -- Ode -- Reading the Ode -- Elegy -- Reafing 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Authorship.
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Creative writing.
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Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Literary form.
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Creative ability.
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| ISBN |
9780062332424
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0062332422
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