Full name: Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse

Author: John Hollander Year: 1981 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780300088328 0300088329

Poet John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse in this classic text, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this fourth edition, J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why the book has played such an important role in the education of young poets and student scholars. '€œHow lucky the young poet who discovers this wisest and most lighthearted of manuals.'€'€”James Merrill '€œMarvelously comprehensive, clarifying and useful, and a delight to read.'€'€”John Reardon, Los Angeles Times Book Review '€œA virtuoso performance and a mandatory text for poetry readers and practioners alike.'€'€”ALA Booklist Similar books: Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell The Sounds of Poetry by Robert Pinsky A Poet's Guide to Poetry by Mary Kinzie A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry An introduction to English poetry by James Fenton Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme by Jack Prelutsky The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser The Practice of Poetry by Robin Behn On Poetry and Craft by Theodore Roethke Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks All the Words Are Yours by Tyler Knott Gregson On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell The life of poetry by Muriel Rukeyser The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Crush by Richard Siken Citizen by Claudia Rankine Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell