Measure For Measure

Two contemporary poets turns their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance. Their wide-ranging selections encompass epic, folk songs, the Romantics, the Victorians, poets of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary hip hop. For many readers, the most familiar poetic metre is the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare, but this only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have employed over the ages. Measure for Measure has sections on Accentual Metre (Kipling, Bishop, Auden), Trochees (Blake, Dickinson, Dorothy Parker), Anapests (Byron, Frost, Langston Hughes); other sections cover iambs, ballads, and more exotic metres like amphibrachs, dipodics, hendecasyllabics and sapphics

Product details

• Authors: Annie Finch, Alexandra Oliver
• Assisted by: Annie Finch (Editor), Finch Annie (Editor), Alexandra Oliver (Editor), Oliver Alexandra (Editor)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781841598000
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-800-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 113 mm x 165 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Drama; Shakespeare Play Elizabethan Stage, Poetry / Poems