| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 494 pages) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Origins: William Chamberlayneâ#x80;#x99;s Pharonnida -- Christopher Anstey: The New Bath Guide -- Anna Seward, Louisa -- George Crabbeâ#x80;#x99;s Tales -- Byronâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x9C;Beppoâ#x80;#x9D; and Don Juan -- Thomas Moore, The Fudge Family Sagas -- Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin -- Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz -- Chapter Three -- Blank Verse -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh -- â#x80;#x9C;Violet Fane, â#x80;#x9D; Denzil Place -- Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book |
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Thomas Woolner, Pygmalion, Charles MacKay, A Manâ#x80;#x99;s Heart, Marguerite A. Power, Virginiaâ#x80;#x99;s Hand and Other Blank Verse TextsHeroic Couplets -- Wilfred Scawen Blunt, Griselda -- William Allingham, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland -- Sonnets -- George Meredith, Modern Love -- Hexameter Verse Novels -- Arthur Hugh Clough, The Bothie and Amours de Voyage -- Tetrameter Verse Novels -- Conventry Patmore, The Angel in the House and The Victories of Love -- Herman Melville, Clarel -- â#x80;#x9C;Owen Meredith, â#x80;#x9D; Lucile -- Alphonso Alva Hopkins, Geraldine |
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Edmund C. Nugent, Anderleigh HallManners Stephenson, Jason of the Golden Fleece -- Chapter Four -- Free-Verse Novels -- Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology -- May Sinclair, The Dark Night -- David Jones, In Parenthesis -- Peter Bowman, Beach Red -- MacKinlay Kantor, Glory for Me -- Jazz Rhythm -- Joseph Moncure March, The Wild Party and The Set-Up -- Blank Verse -- Susan Miles, Lettice Delmer -- Edgar Lee Masters, Domesday Book -- Mixed Forms -- Philip Toynbee, Pantaloon and its Sequels -- Christopher La Farge, Each to the Other and other texts |
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Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brownâ#x80;#x99;s BodyWilliam Rose Benét, Rip Tide -- Zelda Varian Price, Take It to the Hills -- C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and Sequels -- Ottava Rima and Similar Stanzas -- Gilbert Frankau, One of Us, One of Them and More of Us -- Eileen Hewitt, Donna Juana -- Chapter Five -- Free Verse -- Classification and the Unclassifiable: 24 Hours, by . O. -- Short-Line and Short-to-Longer-Line Free Verse -- Dorothy Porter, The Monkeyâ#x80;#x99;s Mask |
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Diane Brown, 8 Stages of Grace, Ana Castillo, Watercolor Women Opaque Men, Anne Carsonâ#x80;#x99;s The Beauty of the Husband, Bernadine Evaristo, The Emperorâ#x80;#x99;s BabeLong-Line Free Verse Novels -- Bernadine Evaristo, Lara, Les Murray, Fredy Neptune, W.S. Merwin, The Folding Cliffs -- Metrical Verse -- Paul Hetherington, Blood and Old Belief -- David Mason, Ludlow -- Terza Rima and Related Forms -- Derek Walcott, Omeros -- John Haynes, Letter to Patience, Glyn Maxwell, Timeâ#x80;#x99;s Fool, Kwame Dawes, Prophets, Ralph Thompson, View from Mount Diablo |
| Summary |
The present age has seen an explosion of verse novels in many parts of the world. Australia is a prolific producer, as are the USA and the UK. Novels in verse have also appeared in Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Jamaica and several other countries. A novel written in verse contradicts theories that distinguish the novel as essentially a prose genre. The boundaries of prose and verse are, however, somewhat fluid. This is especially evident in the case of free verse poetry and the kinds of prose used in many Modernist novels. The contemporary outburst may seem a uniquely Postmodernist |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Novels in verse -- History and criticism
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Narrative poetry, English -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Narrative poetry, English
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Novels in verse
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527504158 |
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1527504158 |
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