Blank Verse
A Guide to Its History and Use
Blank verse-unrhymed iambic pentameter-is familiar to many as the form of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's Paradise Lost. Since its first use in English in the sixteenth century, it has provided poets with a powerful and versatile metrical line, enabling the creation of some of the most memorable poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Frost, Stevens, Wilbur, Nemerov, Hecht, and a host of others. A protean meter, blank verse lends itself to lyric, dramatic, narrative, and meditative modes; to epigram as well as to epic. Blank Verse is the first book since 1895 to offer a detailed study of the meter's technical features and its history, as well…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8214-1758-4
- EAN: 9780821417584
- Produktnummer: 2812236
- Verlag: Ohio University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Robert B. Shaw is a professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He writes frequently on modern and contemporary poetry. His own books of poems include Below the Surface and Solving for X (winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize).
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