Poetic Form: An Introduction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521772945)

Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on the renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction that will be of help to undergraduates and more advanced readers of poetry alike. The book sees form as neither ornamenting nor mimicking content, but as shaping and animating it, encouraging readers to cultivate techniques to read poems as poems. Lively and wide-ranging, engaging with poems as aesthetic experiences, the book includes a long chapter on the elements of form that throws new light on troubling terms such as rhythm and meter, as well as a detailed introduction and accessible, stimulating chapters on lyric, the sonnet, elegy, soliloquy, dramatic monologue, and ballad and narrative.

Author: Michael D. Hurley, Michael O'Neill
ISBN-10: 052177294X
ISBN-13: 9780521772945
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2012
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2013