The New Book of Forms: Handbook of Poetics - Softcover

Turco, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874513812 ISBN 13: 9780874513813

Publisher: University Press of New England, 1986

Synopsis

The New Book of Forms contains over three hundred verse forms, each succinctly described in prose and, where necessary, with a schematic diagram. Many entries are followed by examples drawn from modern English poems that use the form and by references to well-known poems written in it. Each entry ends with complete cross-references so that readers can discover relationships and similarities among many of the forms. What makes The New Book of Forms more than just an encyclopedia of verse structure, though, is the opening section called "a handbook of poetics." This surveys the two modes of writing - prose and verse - and discusses various prosodic and metrical systems. Although the accent is on the forms of poetry, this book in fact contains all the information essential to a study of poetics from the Middle Ages to the present.

About this title

About the Author

Lewis Turco is Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing at the State University of New York College at Oswego.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874513812
• ISBN 13: 9780874513813
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 280