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An Introduction to Poetic Forms offers specimen discussions of poems through the lens of form. This volume highlights the cultural impact of poetic form, not as a static and lifeless affair but as living, breathing testament to the ongoing evolution of cultural debates.
List of contents
1 Introduction: Repetition and Variation
Patrick Gill
SECTION ONE
Elements of Form
2 Rhyme
Stefan Blohm and Christine A. Knoop
3 Metre
Jesper Kruse
4 Toeing and Breaking the Line: On Enjambment and Caesura
Heather H. Yeung
5 Persona: Its Meaning and Significance
James Dowthwaite
6 Poetry in Performance
Jessica Bundschuh
SECTION TWO
Poetic Forms
7 The Ballad
Catherine Charlwood
8 Blank Verse
Calista McRae
9 The Blazon
Jordan Kistler
10 Concrete Poetry
Tymon Adamczewski
11 The Dramatic Monologue
Gabriella Hartvig
12 Ekphrastic Poetry
Anja Müller-Wood
13 The Elegy
Patrick Gill
14 The Epic
Rachael Sumner
15 Free Verse
Andrew Rowcroft
16 The Heroic Couplet
Alex Streim
17 The Long Poem
Patrick Gill and Miguel Juan Gronow Smith
18 Mock-Heroic Poetry
Purificación Ribes Traver
19 The Ode
Florian Klaeger
20 The Prospect Poem
Roslyn Irving
21 The Sestina
Matthew Kilbane
22 The Sonnet
Patrick Gill
23 The Villanelle
Patrick Gill
About the author
Patrick Gill is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, where he also received his PhD. The co-editor of
Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle (2018) and
Translating Renaissance Experience (2021), his ongoing interest is in the efficacy of literary form.
Summary
An Introduction to Poetic Forms offers specimen discussions of poems through the lens of form. This volume highlights the cultural impact of poetic form, not as a static and lifeless affair but as living, breathing testament to the ongoing evolution of cultural debates.
