Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.
Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as poetic meter, linguistic approaches to verse, and the computer scansion of metrical poetry
Written in a clear, engaging style by a poet and teacher with more than 30 years of experience teaching the subject
Supplemented by a user-friendly website with student exercises and additional...
Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.
Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.
Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as poetic meter, linguistic approaches to verse, and the computer scansion of metrical poetry
Written in a clear, engaging style by a poet and teacher with more than 30 years of experience teaching the subject
Supplemented by a user-friendly website with student exercises and additional...
Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.
To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics have faced in the past century, Charles Hartman takes up the challenge and develops a theory of prosody that includes the most characteristic forms of twentieth-century poetry.
Originally published in 1981.
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To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought....
