Modern Poetic Sequence: The Genius of Modern Poetry

by Macha Louis Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall

Book Overview

Ezra Pound's Cantos, T.S. Eliot's Waste Land, W.B. Yeat's Irish civil-war sequences, and William Carlos Williams's Paterson are some of the most genuinely creative poems of the present age--and all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195031709
• ISBN13: 9780195031706
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Poems in Groups and Why

This is one of my favorite books of literary criticism of poetry. If you have ever wondered why and how poets group their poems into sets, this is the book for you. What makes a successful grouping? Which poets made successful groupings of poems and why do these sets work? This is a great book for poets who are wondering how to combine a pile of poems into a sequence. In music a piano sonata may have a first movement (sonata-allegro) a slow second movement, a minuet or scherzo third movement and a finale rondo or sonata-rondo. How do poets set up similar patterns in their work. What can a poem gain by its placement in a sequence? Why might a poet rearrange poems in a sequence? I find this book fascinating, and young poets would do well to take a look!