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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Shaw, Robert Burns, 1947- Blank verse. Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)607789921 Online version: Shaw, Robert Burns, 1947- Blank verse. Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)608356305 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert B Shaw |
ISBN: | 9780821417577 0821417576 9780821417584 0821417584 |
OCLC Number: | 74964318 |
Description: | xi, 305 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | The sounds of blank verse -- Before the twentieth century -- Blank verse and modernism -- After modernism -- Writing blank verse today. |
Responsibility: | Robert B. Shaw. |
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"This conversational, engaging study offers a much-needed reconsideration of blank verse and the poets who explore its intricacies. Essential." -- CHOICE "Robert B. Shaw's Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use is a popular study in the best sense of the word. It is written entirely without scholarly jargon. Its explanations are clear and direct, its examples abundant and well chosen. Its author knows his subject intimately well." "At the conclusion of Blank Verse, one feels admiring gratitude to Robert B. Shaw, who has guided us with such imaginative care for a particular verse medium and also for the larger enterprise of poetry." -- William H. Pritchard "Shaw's eminently readable volume is a fine guide to how blank verse has been written, and especially for how it may be taken up by aspirant poets. Its efforts to serve as comprehensive survey and instructive commentary at once could hardly be more successful." "I am enthusiastic about Blank Verse. It's based on a wide, sensitive reading of the tradition, and it deftly negotiates the demands of technical precision and clear exposition." -- Thomas Cable "Robert B. Shaw's Blank Verse is a remarkable history-in-little of the crucial question of poetry written in English that takes the form of blank verse or unrhymed iambic pentameter. William Shakespeare, John Milton, and William Wordsworth are necessarily the greatest poets analyzed by Shaw, but he gives particular emphasis to the twentieth century and to ongoing literary history. The book's achievement is considerable: it offers accurate instruction in prosody and a vast store of curious and useful information about particular poets and their poems." -- -Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages "Shaw's research and instruction bring new music to this most familiar rhythm, updating our understanding and enlivening the conversation." -- American Poet Read more...

