Rhyme's reason : a guide to English verse / John Hollander.
2014
PE1505 .H6 2014
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Title
Rhyme's reason : a guide to English verse / John Hollander.
Author
Edition
4th edition.
ISBN
9780300210828 (electronic bk.)
0300210825 (electronic bk.)
9780300206296 (hardcover)
0300206291 (hardcover)
9780300088328 (paperback)
0300088329 (paperback)
0300210825 (electronic bk.)
9780300206296 (hardcover)
0300206291 (hardcover)
9780300088328 (paperback)
0300088329 (paperback)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 142 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.12987/9780300210828 doi
Call Number
PE1505 .H6 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)890397305
Summary
In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this revised edition, J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why Rhymes's Reason has played an integral role in the education of young poets and student scholars. "[Hollander] put everything he knew about the structures of poetry-those fabled magic tricks-into a sort of guidebook for those starting out on the trail up Mount Parnassus. . . . There are astonishments on every page."-from the Foreword by J. D. McClatchy "This book's wit and inventive spirit, its self-describing embodiments of form, now offer the beginning poet a happy chance to discover the technician in himself."-from the Afterword by Richard Wilbur "How lucky the young poet who discovers this wisest and most lighthearted of manuals."-James Merrill "What the E. B. White-William Strunk The Elements of Style is to the writing of prose, Rhyme's Reason could very easily become to the writing of verse. . . . Marvelously comprehensive, clarifying and useful, [and] a delight to read."-John Reardon, Los Angeles Times Review of Books "A virtuoso performance and a mandatory text for poetry readers and practitioners alike."-ALA Booklist.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword to the Fourth Edition, by""; ""Preface to the Third Edition""; ""Introduction""; ""Schemes""; ""Verse Systems""; ""Accentual-Syllabic Verse""; ""The pentameter line and others""; ""Versification""; ""Monostitch""; ""Blank verse""; ""Fourteeners""; ""Rhyming""; ""Couplets""; ""Tercets""; ""Quatrains""; ""Other stanzaic forms""; ""Kinds of sonnet""; ""Accentual Meters""; ""Old English""; ""Sprung rhythm""; ""Skeltonics""; ""Pure Syllabic Verse""; ""Haiku""; ""Cinquain""; ""Free Verse""; ""Aberrant Forms""; ""Antiverse""; ""Pattern-poem""; ""Concrete poem""
""Ode Forms""""Quantitative Verse""; ""Classical Meters and Their Adaptations""; ""Elegiacs""; ""Alcaics""; ""Hendecasyllabics""; ""Acrostics""; ""Echo verse""; ""Repetitive Structures""; ""Carol and refrain""; ""Villanelle""; ""Sestina""; ""Ballade""; ""Rondeau""; ""Triolet""; ""Pantoum""; ""Blues and thirtytwo bar standard song""; ""Comical Schemes""; ""Limerick""; ""Clerihew""; ""Double-dactyl""; ""Rhetorical Schemes""; ""Epic simile""; ""Zeugma""; ""Anacoluthon""; ""Apostrophe""; ""Anaphora""; ""Homoeoteleuton""; ""Chiasmus""; ""Variation and Mimesis""; ""Imitative form""
""Representative versification""""More on Rhyming""; ""Anomalous rhyming""; ""Laisses""; ""Line indentation""; ""Blank-verse sonnet""; ""Uncommon Schemes""; ""Unequal couplet""; ""Pushkin's stanza""; ""Canzone""; ""Rondel and roundel""; ""Rondeau redouble""; ""Accentual hexameters""; ""Ad hoc rhythms""; ""Leonine Rhyme""; ""Rhopalics""; ""Tanca""; ""Pantun""; ""Ghazals""; ""Luc-bdt""; ""Appendix""; ""Patterns in Practice""; ""Afterword to the Fourth Edition, by Richard Wilbur""; ""Suggestions for Further Reading""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""
""M""""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""Z""
""Ode Forms""""Quantitative Verse""; ""Classical Meters and Their Adaptations""; ""Elegiacs""; ""Alcaics""; ""Hendecasyllabics""; ""Acrostics""; ""Echo verse""; ""Repetitive Structures""; ""Carol and refrain""; ""Villanelle""; ""Sestina""; ""Ballade""; ""Rondeau""; ""Triolet""; ""Pantoum""; ""Blues and thirtytwo bar standard song""; ""Comical Schemes""; ""Limerick""; ""Clerihew""; ""Double-dactyl""; ""Rhetorical Schemes""; ""Epic simile""; ""Zeugma""; ""Anacoluthon""; ""Apostrophe""; ""Anaphora""; ""Homoeoteleuton""; ""Chiasmus""; ""Variation and Mimesis""; ""Imitative form""
""Representative versification""""More on Rhyming""; ""Anomalous rhyming""; ""Laisses""; ""Line indentation""; ""Blank-verse sonnet""; ""Uncommon Schemes""; ""Unequal couplet""; ""Pushkin's stanza""; ""Canzone""; ""Rondel and roundel""; ""Rondeau redouble""; ""Accentual hexameters""; ""Ad hoc rhythms""; ""Leonine Rhyme""; ""Rhopalics""; ""Tanca""; ""Pantun""; ""Ghazals""; ""Luc-bdt""; ""Appendix""; ""Patterns in Practice""; ""Afterword to the Fourth Edition, by Richard Wilbur""; ""Suggestions for Further Reading""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""
""M""""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""Z""
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Print version: Hollander, John. Rhyme's reason. Third edition
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