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Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse

Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse

McClatchy, J. D.
Wilbur, Richard
Hollander, John

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ISBN10: 0300206291
ISBN13: 9780300206296
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Sep 30 2014
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.97
Language: English
In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this revised edition, J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why Rhymes's Reason has played an integral role in the education of young poets and student scholars.

[Hollander] put everything he knew about the structures of poetry--those fabled magic tricks--into a sort of guidebook for those starting out on the trail up Mount Parnassus. . . . There are astonishments on every page.--from the Foreword by J. D. McClatchy

This book's wit and inventive spirit, its self-describing embodiments of form, now offer the beginning poet a happy chance to discover the technician in himself.--from the Afterword by Richard Wilbur

How lucky the young poet who discovers this wisest and most lighthearted of manuals.--James Merrill

What the E. B. White-William Strunk The Elements of Style is to the writing of prose, Rhyme's Reason could very easily become to the writing of verse. . . . Marvelously comprehensive, clarifying and useful, [and] a delight to read.--John Reardon, Los Angeles Times Review of Books

A virtuoso performance and a mandatory text for poetry readers and practitioners alike.--ALA Booklist

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