Hartman Verse

An Introduction to Prosody
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-89413-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for anystudent learning to read or write poetry, from secondary tograduate school.
* Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metricalverse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advancedtopics such as poetic meter, linguistic approaches to verse, andthe computer scansion of metrical poetry
* Written in a clear, engaging style by a poet and teacher withmore than 30 years of experience teaching the subject
* Supplemented by a user-friendly website with student exercisesand additional resources

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartman, Charles O.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Hartman is Poet in Residence and Lucy Marsh Haskell'19 Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, wherehe teaches poetry writing, modern and contemporary poetry, andsong. He is the author of seven collections of poems, mostrecently New & Selected Poems (2008), and critical bookson free verse, jazz and poetry, and computer poetry.