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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... ( Story Line Press , 1993 ) reprinted by permission of Story Line Press . Canaday , John . Excerpt from " Al Badr Street " from The Invisible World reprinted with permission of Louisiana State University Press . Grosholz , Emily . Excerpt ...
... Story " ( Stephens ) , 237 " True Story of What Happened , The " ( M. Williams ) , 213 " Trying Conclusions " ( Nemerov ) , 187 Tuckerman , Frederick Goddard , 79 ; " Cricket , The , " 79 ; " Mark Atherton , " 79 ; “ Stranger , The ...
Contents
Before the Twentieth Century 333 | 82 |
After Modernism | 161 |
Writing Blank Verse Today | 244 |
Copyright | |
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