A Little Book on Form
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A Little Book on Form

An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

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A Little Book on Form

An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

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About This Book

An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within formā€”from former poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass.

Robert Hassā€”former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prizeā€”illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this sophisticated, graceful, and accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop.

A Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as both a poet and a critic and reflects his profound education in the art of poetry. Starting with the exploration of a single line as the basic gesture of a poem, and moving into an examination of the essential expressive gestures that exist inside forms, Hass goes beyond approaching form as a set of traditional rules that precede composition, and instead offers penetrating insight into the true openness and instinctiveness of formal creation.

A Little Book on Form is a rousing reexamination of our longest lasting mode of literature from one of our greatest living poets.

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Publisher
Ecco
Year
2017
ISBN
9780062332448
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism in Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. One
  7. Two
  8. Three
  9. Four
  10. A Note on Numbers
  11. Blank Verse
  12. Sonnet
  13. Reading the Sonnet
  14. Victorian Medievalism: Sestina and Villanelle
  15. A Note on Genre
  16. Ode
  17. Reading the Ode
  18. Elegy
  19. Reading the Elegy
  20. Satire
  21. Georgic
  22. Variable Stanzas and Organic Form
  23. Difficult Forms
  24. Collage, Abstraction, Oulipo, and Procedural Poetics
  25. Mixed Forms
  26. Prose Poem
  27. A Note on Stress
  28. How to Scan a Poem
  29. How Free Verse Works
  30. Acknowledgments
  31. About the Author
  32. Praise
  33. Also by Robert Hass
  34. Credits
  35. Copyright
  36. About the Publisher