Poetic Form: An Introduction (Paperback)

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An academic but completely readable investigation of the relationship between form and meaning.

— Sarah G.

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Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on the renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction that will be of help to undergraduates and more advanced readers of poetry alike. The book sees form as neither ornamenting nor mimicking content, but as shaping and animating it, encouraging readers to cultivate techniques to read poems as poems. Lively and wide-ranging, engaging with poems as aesthetic experiences, the book includes a long chapter on the elements of form that throws new light on troubling terms such as rhythm and meter, as well as a detailed introduction and accessible, stimulating chapters on lyric, the sonnet, elegy, soliloquy, dramatic monologue, and ballad and narrative.
Product Details
ISBN: 9780521774994
ISBN-10: 0521774993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: October 8th, 2012
Pages: 253
Language: English
Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature (Paperback)