Verse - An Introduction to Prosody

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school. 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

Product details

• Authors: C Hartman, Charles O Hartman, Charles O. Hartman, Charles O. (Connecticut College Hartman
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2013
• EAN: 9780470656013
• ISBN: 978-0-470-65601-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Wiley Desktop Editions; Wiley Desktop Editions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Lyrik, Literature, Poetry, Prosodie, Literaturkritik u. -geschichte, Literary Criticism & History