An indispensable guide for poets, readers, students, and teachers.
""The Poem's Heartbeat "may well be the finest general book
available on prosody."--"Library Journal "(starred review)
"A provocative, definitive manual."--"Publishers Weekly"
Finally back in print, this slender, user-friendly guide to
rhyme, rhythm, meter, and form sparks "intuitive and technical
lightning-flashes" for poets and readers curious to know a poem's
inner workings. Clear, good-humored, and deeply readable, Alfred
Corn's book is "the" modern classic on prosody--the art and science
of poetic meter.
Each of the book's ten chapters is a progressive, step-by-step
presentation rich with examples to illustrate concepts such as
line, stress, scansion marks, slant rhyme, and iambic pentameter.
"By the book's end," noted a rave review in "The Boston Review,"
"Corn, magi-teacher and impeccable guide, has taught the novice to
become artist and magician." "The Poem's Heartbeat" also includes a
selected bibliography and encourages readers and students to carry
their investigations further.
"The word "line" comes from the Latin" linea," itself derived
from the word for a thread of linen. We can look at the lines of
poetry as slender compositional units forming a weave like that of
a textile. Indeed, the word "text" has the same origin as the word
"textile." It isn't difficult to compare the compositional process
to weaving, where thread moves from left to right, reaches the
margin of the text, then shuttles back to begin the next unit . .
."
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