A little book on form : an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry /

"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,&qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hass, Robert (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Poetry > Authorship. Creative writing. Poetry > History and criticism. Literary form. Creative ability. Poetry. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of 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
Reading 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.