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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... death from him : Alive I never could escape your love , And when I sickened towards my death I thought , ' I'll to the desert , or chuckle in a corner , Mere ghost , a solitary thing . ' I died And saw no more until I saw you stand In ...
... Death of the Gods . " Among his nonmilitary pieces , there are attractive examples in a variety of modes . " The Place of Death ” is a meditation on mortality by means of a near - photographic depiction of a ceme- tery with interwoven ...
... Death and the Maiden " ( Lowell ) , 171 " Death and the Maiden " ( Nemerov ) , 182 " Death of a Naturalist " ( Heaney ) , 217 " Death of the Hired Man , The " ( Frost ) , 96-97 , 254-55 Deborah ( Abercrombie ) , 116 decasyllabic line ...
Contents
Before the Twentieth Century 333 | 82 |
After Modernism | 161 |
Writing Blank Verse Today | 244 |
Copyright | |
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