9781841598000

Measure for Measure

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781841598000

Hardcover|9781841598000


Overview

Two contemporary poets turns their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance. Their wide-ranging selections encompass epic, folk songs, the Romantics, the Victorians, poets of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary hip hop. For many readers, the most familiar poetic metre is the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare, but this only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have employed over the ages. Measure for Measure has sections on Accentual Metre (Kipling, Bishop, Auden), Trochees (Blake, Dickinson, Dorothy Parker), Anapests (Byron, Frost, Langston Hughes); other sections cover iambs, ballads, and more exotic metres like amphibrachs, dipodics, hendecasyllabics and sapphics

ISBN-13

9781841598000

ISBN-10

1841598003

Weight

0.52 Pounds

Dimensions

4.45 x 0.75 x 6.50 In

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Pages

256 pages

Publisher

Random House

Published On

2015-01-01



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