Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History and UseBlank verse--unrhymed iambic pentameter--is familiar to many as the form of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's Paradise Lost. Since its first use in English in the sixteenth century, it has provided poets with a powerful and versatile metrical line, enabling the creation of some of the most memorable poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Frost, Stevens, Wilbur, Nemerov, Hecht, and a host of others. A protean meter, blank verse lends itself to lyric, dramatic, narrative, and meditative modes; to epigram as well as to epic. Blank Verse is the first book since 1895 to offer a detailed study of the meter's technical features and its history, as well as its many uses. Robert B. Shaw gives ample space and emphasis to the achievements of modern and postmodern poets working in the form, an area neglected until now by scholarship. |
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... Nemerov ( University of Chicago Press , 1977 ) reprinted by permission of Margaret Nemerov . Nemerov , Howard . Excerpt from " She " from Inside the Onion by Howard Nemerov ( Uni- versity of Chicago Press , 1984 ) reprinted by ...
... ( Nemerov ) , 187 Larkin , Philip , 182 " Last Confession , A " ( Rossetti ) , 73 " Last Days in Camden " ( R. B. Shaw ) , 241 " Last Words of Pig No. 6707 " ( Van Duyn ) , 211 " Lazarus " ( Robinson ) , 83 " Learning by Doing " ( Nemerov ) ...
... ( Nemerov ) , 187 " To Lu Chi " ( Nemerov ) , 187 " Tomb at Akr Çaar , The " ( Pound ) , 122 " To My Child Carlino " ( Landor ) , 73 " To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window " ( Crapsey ) , 146 Tottel , Richard , 34 ...
Contents
Before the Twentieth Century 333 | 82 |
After Modernism | 161 |
Writing Blank Verse Today | 244 |
Copyright | |
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