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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... Frost's , a problematic model of blank verse . Another New England poet , Robert Francis , who as a young man was strongly influenced by Frost , developed doubts over the years about his men- tor's blank verse . In a memoir of Frost he ...
... Frost's practice of restless experimentation , yet in range of subject matter the younger poet is the more conservative . New England was only one of several settings for Robinson the narrative poet ; but for Frost in all but a few ...
... Frost , " in The Cambridge Compan- ion to Robert Frost , ed . Robert Faggen ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2001 ) , 123-53 . 8. Frost , " Preface to an Expanded ' North of Boston , " " 849 . 9. Frost to John T. Bartlett ...
Contents
Before the Twentieth Century 333 | 82 |
After Modernism | 161 |
Writing Blank Verse Today | 244 |
Copyright | |
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