Blank verse : a guide to its history and use / Robert B. Shaw.
Blank verse : a guide to its history and use / Robert B. Shaw.
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Athens : Ohio University Press, c2007.
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N821/578
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English
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xi, 305 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. The sounds of blank verse -- Ch. 2. Before the twentieth century -- Ch. 3. Blank verse and modernism -- Ch. 4. After modernism -- Ch. 5. Writing blank verse today.
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Athens : Ohio University Press, c2007.
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Ohio
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c2007.
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"Since its first use in English in the sixteenth century, blank verse - unrhymed iambic pentameter - has provided poets with a powerful and versatile metrical line, enabling the creation of some of the most memorable poems of Wordsworth, Frost, Stevens, Nemerov, Hecht, and a host of others. A protean meter, blank verse lends itself to lyric, dramat...
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Blank verse : a guide to its history and use / Robert B. Shaw.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-289) and index.
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c2007.
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N821/578
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0821417584 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780821417577 (alk. paper)
0821417576 (alk. paper)
9780821417584 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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821.009
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991023261569702626
