This volume was first published in 1957 and was intended as an appreciation of poetry, based on the study of authors' corrected manuscripts, revised published versions, transpositions of prose into verse, and contrasted translations.
For high school students.
The Poet's Craft
Among those who have at least a nodding acquaintance with the works of writers such as W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Stanley Kunitz and Denise Levertov, this collection of...
From the haiku to the sonnet, from the dactyl to the trochee, this handbook provides a guide to the forms and devices used by poets over the centuries.