The art of the poetic line

"Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines." James Longenbach opens The Art of the Poetic Line with that essential statement. Through a range of examples - from Shakespeare and Milton to Ashbery and Glück - Longenbach describes the function of line in metered, rhymed, syllabic, and free-ve...

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Main Author: Longenbach, James
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf, c2008
Series:Art of series
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300 |a xiii, 128 p. ;  |c 18 cm. 
440 0 |a Art of series 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-128). 
505 0 |a Line and syntax -- Ending the line -- Poem and prose. 
520 |a "Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines." James Longenbach opens The Art of the Poetic Line with that essential statement. Through a range of examples - from Shakespeare and Milton to Ashbery and Glück - Longenbach describes the function of line in metered, rhymed, syllabic, and free-verse poetry. That function is sonic, he argues, and our true experience of it can only be identified in relation to other elements in a poem. Syntax and the interaction of different kinds of line endings are primary to understanding line, as is the relationship of lineated poems to prose poetry. The Art of the Poetic Line is a vital new resource by one of America's most important critics and one of poetry's most engaging practitioners. 
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