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Measure for Measure
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Measure for Measure
Paperback. Two contemporary poets turns their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance. This book cover iambs, ballads, and more exotic metres like amphibrachs, dipodics, hendecasyllabics and sapphics. Editor(s): Finch, Annie; Oliver, Alexandra. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 116 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Two contemporary poets turns their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance. Their wide-ranging selections encompass epic, folk songs, the Romantics, the Victorians, poets of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary hip hop. For many readers, the most familiar poetic metre is the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare, but this only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have employed over the ages. Measure for Measure has sections on Accentual Metre (Kipling, Bishop, Auden), Trochees (Blake, Dickinson, Dorothy Parker), Anapests (Byron, Frost, Langston Hughes); other sections cover iambs, ballads, and more exotic metres ... Read more
Two contemporary poets turns their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance. Their wide-ranging selections encompass epic, folk songs, the Romantics, the Victorians, poets of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary hip hop. For many readers, the most familiar poetic metre is the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare, but this only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have employed over the ages. Measure for Measure has sections on Accentual Metre (Kipling, Bishop, Auden), Trochees (Blake, Dickinson, Dorothy Parker), Anapests (Byron, Frost, Langston Hughes); other sections cover iambs, ballads, and more exotic metres ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1961
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841598000
SKU
KKD0004836
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Roger Hargreaves
Annie Finch is the author of fifteen books of poetry, translation and criticism. Her collected poems, Spells, was published last year. She lives in Maine. Canadian performance and slam poet Alexandra Oliver has published several volumes of verse including Where the English Housewife Shines and Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway
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