The making of a poem : a Norton anthology of poetic forms

Strand, Mark, 1934- (Added Author). Boland, Eavan. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780393049169
ISBN: 9780393321784 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0393049167
ISBN: 0393321789 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxxi, 366 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

On Becoming a Poet / Mark Strand -- Poetic Form: A Personal Encounter / Eavan Boland -- I. Verse Forms. The Villanelle. Villanelle of His Lady's Treasures / Ernest Downson. The House on the Hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson. Missing Dates / William Empson. The Waking / Theodore Roethke. One Art / Elizabeth Bishop. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas. The World and the Child / James Merrill. Condemned Site / Mona Van Duyn. By the Sound / John Hollander. Saturday at the Border / Hayden Carruth. Under the Hill / Daryl Hine. Villanelle / Marilyn Hacker. Reading Scheme / Wendy Cope. Villanelle for the Middle of the Night / Jacqueline Osherow -- Close-Up of a Villanelle: "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop. The Sestina. Ye wastefull woodes, bear witness of my woe / Edmund Spenser. from Old Arcadia / Philip Sidney.