
Verse
An Introduction to Prosody
Charles O. Hartman(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 20. March 2015
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-470-65600-6 (ISBN)
Description
Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.
* Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as poetic meter, linguistic approaches to verse, and the computer scansion of metrical poetry
* Written in a clear, engaging style by a poet and teacher with more than 30 years of experience teaching the subject
* Supplemented by a user-friendly website with student exercises and additional resources
Reviews / Votes
"This is a text that will work: Hartman's experience as a teacher is everywhere in evidence, and his care and inventiveness in presenting key concepts make the complexities of metrical analysis far more accessible than most similar texts .... I have great admiration for this text and have learned a lot from it; my students will learn even more." --Malcolm Woodland, University of Toronto "It combines a high level of literary scholarship with a practitioner's awareness and a ready-friendly style."-- Neil Roberts, Sheffield UniversityMore details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-65600-6 (9780470656006)
Schweitzer Classification
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09/2015
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Person
Charles Hartman is Poet in Residence and Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where he teaches poetry writing, modern and contemporary poetry, and song. He is the author of seven collections of poems, most recently New & Selected Poems (2008), and critical books on free verse, jazz and poetry, and computer poetry.
Content
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