| Description |
viii, 125 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
The Critical idiom ; 38 |
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Critical idiom ; 38
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| Contents |
Part I: Definitions of the stanza -- Poets and early critics -- Modern prosodists -- Part II: Stanza forms -- Couplets -- Tercets -- Quatrains -- Cinquains -- Sixains -- Seven-line stanzas -- Eight-line stanzas -- Nine-line stanzas -- Classical stanza forms -- Formal ambiguity -- Heterometrical stanzas -- Stanzaic poems -- Part III: Stanzaic unity -- Stanzaic opening -- Stanzaic closure -- Stanzaic framing -- Stanzaic recurrence -- Part IV: Stanza and poetic structure -- Stanzaic mobility -- Stanzaic progression |
| Analysis |
Stanzas |
| Notes |
Distributed in the USA by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-121) and index |
| Subject |
English poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetics.
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Stanzas.
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Versification.
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| LC no. |
79306770 |
| ISBN |
0416846009 |
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0416846106 (paperback) |
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9780416846003 |
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9780416846102 (paperback) |
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