Sound and Form in Modern Poetry: Second Edition

by Harvey Gross and Robert McDowell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472065173
• ISBN13: 9780472065172
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"