The Stanza

by Ernst Häublein and Ernst Haublein

Book Overview

First published in 1978, this work bridges the gap between the study of poetic form, which tends to isolate form from meaning and structural poetics, which tends to focus on meaning without considering the stanza's impact. Beginning with an examination of the various definitions of the stanza, the book goes on to describe the many forms of the stanza and the different strategies by which poets achieve stanzaic units of meaning. It then evaluates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138233161
• ISBN13: 9781138233164
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"