| Contents |
Introduction -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Credits. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Abstract |
" ... Hass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experiences of human thought and feeling in language"--Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446). |
| Genre/form | Instructional and educational works. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Instructional and educational works. |
| ISBN | 9780062332424 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0062332422 (hardcover) |
