Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse

ISBN-10: 0300027354
ISBN-13: 9780300027358
Series: Rhyme's Reason
Pages: 54
Language: English
Published: 1981
Publisher: Yale University Press
Author: John Hollander

Description

"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. This substantially expanded and revised edition includes a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that exhibit the schemes and patterns he has described. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.