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Häftad, Engelska, 1996
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Why are poems important? What do people mean when they use the word prosody? How does a poem read and sound? How does a poem's shape--its form--help to create its meaning? Sound and Form in Modern Poetry provides useful answers to these questions for readers of poetry. Through careful attention to the poems of modern masters, the book offers an accessible guide to the way today's poems really work, and to the way they are linked in style to poems of earlier times. Poet, critic, and editor Robert McDowell has updated this classic text in the light of the poetic and critical developments of the last three decades. Segments on Dickinson, Robinson, Frost, Jeffers, and Lowell, among other poets, have been greatly expanded, and Ashbery, Creeley, Ginsberg, Hall, Kees, Kumin, Levertov, Levine, O'Hara, Plath, Rich, Simpson, and Wilbur added, among others. The epilogue discusses a new generation of poets whose works will likely be read well into the next century-- among others, Thomas M. Disch, Rita Dove, Dana Gioia, Emily Grosholz, Mark Jarman, Molly Peacock, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Timothy Steele, Mary Swander, and Marilyn Nelson Waniek. Over the last ten years, the most inspiring topic of conversation and argument among poets and their readers has been the resurgence of narrative and traditional forms. The new Sound and Form in Modern Poetry is a seminal text in this discussion, examining not only this movement but all of the important developments (Dadaism, Surrealism, Imagism, Language Poetry, and the Confessional School) that have defined our poetry in the twentieth century and have set the stage for poetry's continued life in the twenty-first. The original Sound and Form in Modern Poetry enjoyed extensive classroom use as a text; the revised version promises to be even more accessible, and more essential, for years to come. The late Harvey Gross was Professor of Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Robert McDowell is publisher and editor of Story Line Press, and is also poet, critic, translator, fiction writer, and essayist.
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Sound and Form in Modern Poetry: A Study of Prosody from Thomas Hardy to Robert Lowell by Harvey Gross offers a comprehensive and nuanced exploration of poetic form and prosody in twentieth-century poetry. Delving deeply into the rhythmic and sonic dimensions that shape modern English verse, Gross guides readers through both traditional metrical conventions and the innovative departures of modern poets.Navigating the "e;dark wood"e; of conflicting theories and approaches to poetic rhythm, Gross traces the evolution of English-language prosody from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The book provides detailed analyses of the techniques and stylistic achievements of poets such as Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Lowell. Gross doesn't just analyze meter-he considers a broader concept of rhythmic structure, one that encompasses visual, syntactic, and auditory patterns and recognizes prosody as a vital means by which poetry communicates feeling, expectation, and psychological process.Blending close readings, literary criticism, and insights from linguistics and aesthetics, Sound and Form in Modern Poetry challenges simplistic accounts of meter and embraces the complexity of both metrical and nonmetrical verse. Generously referencing both classical and contemporary critics, the book supplies readers with a clear framework for understanding the convergences and tensions between tradition and innovation in modern poetry. Essential for students, scholars, and poetry lovers alike, Gross's study reveals how the nuances of sound and rhythm are central to a poem's expressive power.