Robert Beum, Karl Shapiro

The Prosody Handbook (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Poetic Form

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written by two major American poets, this guide to versification is immensely useful for anyone interested in poetry or in general poetic structure. Its systematic study of meter, tempo, rhyme, and other components of verse incorporates countless vivid illustrative examples.
Concise and informal, The Prosody Handbook progresses from the smaller elements to the larger: from syllables to feet to lines to stanzas, and from smaller stanzas to larger ones. Its modified notation for marking times and stresses is easily understandable. The extensive and expanded material in the chapter titled "Scansions and Comments" introduces the manifold problems of scansion, confronting readers with the necessity of considering a poem's prosody simultaneously with all its other elements and aspects.
A glossary provides ready definitions and illustrations of the most common prosodic terms. A brief chapter covers classical prosody, and the text concludes with an updated bibliography. Both readers and writers of poetry will find this comprehensive volume an essential companion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486122670
• Artikelnr.: 39138691

Autorenporträt

Robert Beum and Karl Shapiro

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword A Note on Terms Prosody as a Study Poetry and Verse Syllables:
Color, Stress, Quantity, Pitch The Foot The Line Accentual and Syllabic
Verse Meter and Rhythm The Uses of Meter Tempo Rhyme The Uses of Rhyme The
Stanza Stanza Forms The Sonnet Blank Verse Free Verse Classical Prosody
Prosody and Period Scansions and Comments Glossary A Selected Bibliography
Index