Poetic Meter and Poetic Form - Softcover

Paul Fussell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394306236 ISBN 13: 9780394306230

Publisher: McGraw Hill Text, 1979

Synopsis

Excerpts from distinctive poems illustrate the author's appreciation of the metrical and formal aspects of poetry

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The title of this book may suggest that it is designed as a latter-day Gradus ad Parnassum to teach aspiring writers to produce passable verses. It is not. It is intended to help aspiring readers deepen their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal properties of poetry and thus heighten their pleasure and illumination as an appropriately skilled audience of an exacting art.

About the Author:

Paul Fussell, critic, essayist, and cultural commentator, has recently won the H. L. Mencken Award of the Free Press Association. Among his books are "The Great War and Modem Memory, " which in 1976 won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award; "Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars; Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War;" and, most recently, "BAD or, The Dumbing of America." His essays have been collected in "The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations" and "Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays." He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches English at the University of Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Text
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0394306236
• ISBN 13: 9780394306230
• Binding: Paperback