The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody - Brossura

Corn, Alfred

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1556592817 ISBN 13: 9781556592812

Casa editrice: Copper Canyon Pr, 2008

Riassunto

An indispensable guide for poets, readers, students, and teachers.

The Poem’s Heartbeat may well be the finest general book available on prosody.”Library Journal(starred review)

A provocative, definitive manual.”Publishers Weekly

Finally back in print, this slender, user-friendly guide to rhyme, rhythm, meter, and form sparks intuitive and technical lightning-flashes” for poets and readers curious to know a poem’s inner workings. Clear, good-humored, and deeply readable, Alfred Corn’s book is the modern classic on prosodythe art and science of poetic meter.

Each of the book’s ten chapters is a progressive, step-by-step presentation rich with examples to illustrate concepts such as line, stress, scansion marks, slant rhyme, and iambic pentameter. By the book’s end,” noted a rave review inThe Boston Review, Corn, magi-teacher and impeccable guide, has taught the novice to become artist and magician.”The Poem’s Heartbeat also includes a selected bibliography and encourages readers and students to carry their investigations further.

The word line” comes from the Latin linea, itself derived from the word for a thread of linen. We can look at the lines of poetry as slender compositional units forming a weave like that of a textile. Indeed, the word text” has the same origin as the word textile.” It isn’t difficult to compare the compositional process to weaving, where thread moves from left to right, reaches the margin of the text, then shuttles back to begin the next unit . . .

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L'autore:

Alfred Corn is a poet, novelist, and art critic. His poems appear regularly in The New Yorker, The Nation, and the New Republic. He has traveled widely and taught at many universities, including Columbia, UCLA, and Yale. He lives in New York.

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Book by Corn Alfred

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Copper Canyon Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1556592817
• ISBN 13: 9781556592812
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 178