Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse, New Enlarged Edition
A Guide to English Verse
J Hollander
ISBN: | 9780300043068 |
Publisher: | Yale University Press |
Published: | 10 September, 1989 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse, New Enlarged Edition
A Guide to English Verse
J Hollander
In the grand tradition of Alexander Pope, John Hollander offers this explication/enactment of poetic form. There are sonnets about how to write sonnets, haiku about how to write haiku, and so on. The writing is clever, entertaining, and instructive, which will surprise no one familiar with Hollander's work. What's even more impressive, though, is how often these poems--which could so easily start to feel like homework--engage you emotionally. The sestina about sestinas is beautiful, and, excepting Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," Hollander's villanelle about villanelles is as captivating an example as one will find of the old French fixed form.
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