Hass, Robert, <br/><br/>
A little book on form :  an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry / 
Robert Hass. 
 - First edition. 
 - x, 446 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446). 
<br/><br/> Introduction --  One --  Two --  Three --  Four --  A note on numbers --  Blank verse --  Sonnet --  Reading the sonnet --  Victorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle --  A note on genre --  Ode --  Reading the ode --  Elegy --  Reading the elegy --  Satire --  Georgic --  Variable stanzas and organic form --  Difficult forms --  Collage, abstraction, Oulipo, and procedural poetics --  Mixed forms --  Prose poem --  A note on stress --  How to scan a poem --  How free verse works --  Acknowledgments --  Credits. 
<br/><br/> "Robert Hass--former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize--illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop, "--NoveList.  " ... Hass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experiences of human thought and feeling in language"--Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780062332424 0062332422 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017299178 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poetry--Authorship.<br/>Creative writing.<br/>Poetry--History and criticism.<br/>Literary form.<br/>Creative ability.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1059.A9  / H37 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.1