By Design: Intention in Poetry

by Anne Ferry

By Design is a study in the workings of conscious intention as evidenced in such elements of poetic design as rhyme, choice of title, the revision process, and the reinterpretation of a key word, figure, or narrative situation from earlier poems. Through a series of intensely scrutinized examples drawn from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, Anne Ferry celebrates the ever-changing vitality of the act of writing poems within the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757992
• ISBN13: 9780804757997
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"