The Book of Forms

The Book of Forms

Author: Lewis Turco

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781584650225

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Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users.


A Poetry Handbook

A Poetry Handbook

Author: Mary Oliver

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780156724005

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With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.


The Book of Forms

The Book of Forms

Author: Lewis Turco

Publisher: Dartmouth College Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781611680355

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The well-known companion to The Book of Literary Terms and The Book of Dialogue, this indispensable bible of poetics now includes a wealth of "odd and invented" verse forms


Poetry Writing Handbook (eBook)

Poetry Writing Handbook (eBook)

Author: Greta Barclay Lipson

Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press

Published: 1998-03-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 0787784524

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37 different poetic forms (complete with definitions, examples, guidelines, and a place for students to write their own) show the power of language and how to use it! Written by a master teacher, author, educator, and poet, this is the how-to poetry book ??????


The New Book of Forms

The New Book of Forms

Author: Lewis Turco

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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A handbook of poetics discussing all aspects of verse composition & describing over 300 verse forms with examples & schematic diagrams.


Learning the Secrets of English Verse

Learning the Secrets of English Verse

Author: David J. Rothman

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-09

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 3030530965

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This textbook teaches the writing of poetry by examining all the major verse forms and repeating stanza forms in English. It provides students with the tools to compose successful lines of poetry and focuses on meter (including free verse), rhythm, rhyme, and the many other tools a poet needs to create both music and meaningfulness in an artful poem. Presenting copious examples from strong poets of the past and present along with many recent student examples, all of which are scanned, each chapter offers lessons in poetic history and the practice of writing verse, along with giving students a structured opportunity to experiment writing in all the forms discussed. In Part 1, Rothman and Spear begin at the beginning, with Anglo-Saxon Strong Stress Alliterative Meter and examine every major meter in English, up to and including the free verse forms of modern and contemporary poetry. Part 2 presents a close examination of stanza forms that moves from the simple to the complex, beginning with couplets and ending with the 14-line Eugene Onegin stanza. The goal of the book is to give students the essential skills to understand how any line of poetry in English may have been composed, the better to enjoy them and then also write their own: the keys to the treasure chest. Rothman and Spear present a rigorous curriculum that teaches the craft of poetry through a systematic examination and practice of the major English meters and verse forms. Under their guidance, students hone their craft while studying the rich traditions and innovations of poets writing in English. Suitable for high school students and beyond. I studied with Rothman in graduate school and went through this course with additional scholarly material. This book will help students develop a keen ear for the music of the English language.—Teow Lim Goh, author of Islanders


A Handbook of Poetics, for Students of English Verse (Classic Reprint)

A Handbook of Poetics, for Students of English Verse (Classic Reprint)

Author: Francis Barton Gummere

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780332863474

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Excerpt from A Handbook of Poetics, for Students of English Verse Tms book is published in the belief that many teachers have felt the lack of a concise and systematic statement of the principles of poetry. Such text-books are taught with good result in German schools, and are intended to simplify, not to complicate, the study of literature. The greater part of the literature taught in our schools and colleges is in verse; but, in too many cases, the scholar studies poems without having acquired any definite and compact knowledge of the science of poetry. This Handbook of Poetics is meant to aid the teacher in laying so necessary a foundation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.