Writing Metrical Poetry : Contemporary Lessons for Mastering Traditional Forms

Baer, William

ISBN 10: 0984983694 / ISBN 13: 9780984983698

Published by Measure Press, Incorporated, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing Metrical Poetry : Contemporary Lessons for Mastering Traditional Forms
• Publisher: Measure Press, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984983694
• ISBN 13: 9780984983698
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.816 pounds

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Synopsis

Write poetry in the great metrical tradition of Dante, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Frost, and the poets of the current Formalist revival. In this contemporary guide, you'll learn how to write metrical poetry in all the major forms, from blank verse and quatrains to sonnets and villanelles. Each chapter provides step-by-step instruction that's accessible and easy to understand for even the beginning poet. This book includes unique features difficult to find anywhere else: Essential but non-intimidating instruction on meter and rhyme; Focused assignments detailing how to make your first attempt at a specific form; Illuminating discussions on pop culture, figures of speech, difficult themes, and other important topics; An engaging overview of poetry's history, and why it's important to learn the traditional forms; Complementing the instruction are many classic and contemporary poems, including recent work by Richard Wilbur, Wendy Cope, X.J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia, Rachel Hadas, Wyatt Prunty, Alicia Stallings, and many others; Writing Metrical Poetry is the perfect course in metrical poetry for the person working alone or working in the classroom.

About the Author

William Baer is the author of twenty books, including Borges & Other Sonnets; Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets; and Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets. For fifteen years (1990-2004), he was the editor of The Formalist: A Journal of Metrical Poetry, and he is currently a contributing editor for Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry. A past recipient of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fulbright, a Guggenheim, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award, he is a professor emeritus of creative writing and cinema at the University of Evansville in southern Indiana.