Villanelles

By Annie Finch

Book Overview

With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeated lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle has fascinated poets ever since it was introduced almost two centuries ago. Many well-known names in the past have tried their hand at it, and the villanelle is enjoying a revival among writers today. The poems collected here range from the classic villanelles of the nineteenth century - by Thomas Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Oscar Wilde and others - to such famous and memorable examples as Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle into that good night, ' Elizabeth Bishop's 'One Art' and Sylvia Plath's 'Mad Girl's Love Song'. Here too are the cutting-edge works of contemporary poets, including Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Sherman Alexie and Rita Dove, demonstrating the dazzling variety that can be found within the parameters of a single strict poetic form

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841597929
• ISBN13: 9781841597928
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 6.5"