Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use

by Robert B. Shaw and Robert Shaw

Book Overview

Blank verse--unrhymed iambic pentameter--is familiar to many as the form of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's Paradise Lost. Since its first use in English in the sixteenth century, it has provided poets with a powerful and versatile metrical line, enabling the creation of some of the most memorable poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Frost, Stevens, Wilbur, Nemerov, Hecht, and a host of others. A protean meter, blank verse lends itself...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821417576
• ISBN13: 9780821417577
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.3"