Vision and resonance : two senses of poetic form
"Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander here focuses on two senses of poetic form: the domains of the ear and the eye, the areas in which poetic language seems to dwell. He combines his poetic intuition with analytical and historical arguments to animate a discussion of the structure and function of verse in English. Hollander covers everything from the ways in which poetic form is like, and associates itself with, music, to the picturing functions of the arrangements of printed texts. General topics such as rhyme, enjambment, the elusive role of quantity in English poetry, and the pure syllabic verse used by contemporary poets; specific studies of poets like Donne, Campion, and Jonson in the relation of their metrical practice to musical setting; experimental meter and form in Romantic and modern American poetry as a means of manipulating the pressure of the past; the formal and framing role of titles of poems and pictures--these are some of the areas Hollander illuminates by directing attention both towards the evocative power of verse structure and its embodiment of tradition. "--Front flap
Print Book, English, 1975
Oxford University Press, New York, 1975