Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 340 g
Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 340 g
ISBN: 978-1-55111-129-2
Verlag: Broadview Press
Stephen Adams' text provides a full treatment of traditional topics, from the iambic pentameter through other accentual-syllabic rhythms (trochaic, dactylic and so on) and covering as well other metrical types, stanza structure, the sonnet and other standard forms. Adams also includes a variety of topics not covered in most other introductions to the topic; perhaps most significantly, he provides a full chapter on form in free verse. Moreover, he treats rhyme extensively and includes a comprehensive chapter on literary figures. Poetic Designs is thus much more that an introduction to prosody; it is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the nature of poetry in English. It is a book for the general reader and the aspiring writer as well as for the student, a book intended (in the words of the author) to help 'heighten the experience of poetry.'