Verse: An Introduction to Prosody
Feb 2015 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons
Ebook
312
Pages
About this ebook
Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.
- Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as poetic meter, linguistic approaches to verse, and the computer scansion of metrical poetry
- Written in a clear, engaging style by a poet and teacher with more than 30 years of experience teaching the subject
- Supplemented by a user-friendly website with student exercises and additional resources
About the author
Charles Hartman is Poet in Residence and Lucy Marsh Haskell ’19 Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where he teaches poetry writing, modern and contemporary poetry, and song. He is the author of seven collections of poems, most recently New & Selected Poems (2008), and critical books on free verse, jazz and poetry, and computer poetry.
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