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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... poems are given only for ease of reference , as in many cases when more than one volume by a poet is listed . Many poems are of course available in editions other than those cited here , or in anthologies . Abercrombie , Lascelles . The ...
... Poems 1917-1982 . Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1985 . Markham , Edwin . The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems . New York : Doubleday and McClure , 1899 . Marlowe , Christopher . The Complete Plays . Edited by J. B. Steane . Baltimore ...
... Poems . New York : New Directions , 1957 . Thomas , Edward . Collected Poems . London : Faber , 1949 . Thomson , James . The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence . Edited by James Sambrook . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1972 ...
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Before the Twentieth Century 333 | 82 |
After Modernism | 161 |
Writing Blank Verse Today | 244 |
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