Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters

by Annie Finch

Book Overview

This comprehensive and joyous celebration of metered verse brings together some of the best rhythmic lines in literature. After a century dominated by free verse, there is a new excitement about rediscovering poetry's ancient musical and performative roots. Iambic pentameter is the most familiar meter for most readers, but it only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have employed over the ages. That...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375712488
• ISBN13: 9780375712487
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.4"