A Companion to Poetic Genre by Martiny, Erik -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Title page Copyright page Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Part I

1 “To Get the News from Poems” 2 What Was New Formalism? 3 Meter

The Mechanisms of English Meter Simple Meters Compound Meters Complex Meters (Including Iambic Pentameter) A Note on Traditional Terminology Pseudo-Meters Meter and Genre

4 The Stanza 5 Trying to Praise the Mutilated World 6 English Elegies

The Death of the Father: Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes, Peter Redgrove Poetic Partners: Ted Hughes, Penelope Shuttle Self-Elegy: Peter Reading

7 The Self-Elegy 8 Free Verse and Formal

The Form Historical Background The Ghazal in North America

9 On “the Beat Inevitable”

Backdrop: Ballad Studies From Orality to “(Inter)textuality”: Ballads Ancient to Postmodern

10 Oddity or Tour de Force?

The European Journey of the Sestina Scope, Merits, and Limits of the Sestina English Adaptations Architects, Houses, Home, and Homecoming Tampering with the Rules and Other Liberties: Metasestinas Formulaic Poetry Conclusion, or Envoy

11 The Rondeau 12 Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns 13 Looping the Loop

Dante and the Origins of Terza Rima Terza Rima via Translation The Question of Rhyme Examples of Terza Rima in English Verse Two Ghosts of Terza Rima Beyond and With Ghosts

14 Ottava Rima 15 “Named Airs” 16 African American Sonnets 17 The Liberties of Blank Verse 18 Arcs of Movement

Dryden, Pope, Johnson Modern and Contemporary

19 In a Sea of Indeterminacy

Haiku as Koan Haiku as Global Phenomenon Haiku as Tip of a Pyramid Haiku as an Adapted Japanese Form Haiku as a Paradigm for Modernism Haiku as Beat Phenomenon Pioneering Specialist: Cor van den Heuvel Roberta Beary The Generalist and the Specialist: Billy Collins and Scott Metz Robert Hass Chase Twichell Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison Ian Marshall Haiku’s Current Future

20 On the Pantoum, and the Pantunite Element in Poetry 21 “Gists and Piths”

Oracular Verse Crisis in Poetry Poems for the Eye and for the Ear Removing the Masks Writing Is Text not Lines

22 The Emergent Prose Poem

Some Defining Features Radical?

23 Concrete/Visual Poetry

24 Poems that Count

Oulipo or Not Oulipo? The Three Rs Jackson Mac Low: Re-Citing/Re-Siting Ron Silliman’s Exponentials An Autobiography of Lacunae: Lyn Hejinian’s My Life Kenneth Goldsmith’s Mediations Obsessed with Forgetting: Jerome Rothenberg’s Gematria Towards an Ethical Imperative: “Optimistic Disenchantment”

25 Modes of Found Poetry

Part II

26 “Horny Morning Mood” 27 Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul 28 Heaney, Virgil, and Contemporary Katabasis 29 The Aisling 30 The Printed Voice 31 Rewriting the People’s Newspaper

Provenance, History, and Contexts The Mighty Sparrow The Mighty Chalkdust Conclusion

32 Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry 33 Parnassus in Pillory

Literary Satire Satirical Burlesque Epigrammatic Satire Menippean Satirical Verse Conclusion

34 Poetry and Its Occasions 35 On Verse Letters

I II III IV

36 “Containing History”

An Antiquated Genre? Reverence and Rebellion Lyric and Epic, Past and Present

37 T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem

The Short Long Poem The Long Short Poem Postscript to the Long Poem

38 Making War Poetry Contemporary 39 Bestiary USA

Moral Lessons Human–Animal Relationships The Anti-Bestiary

40 “From Arcadia to Bunyah”

Pastoral Poetry from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century Modern Pastoral Postcolonial Pastoral: Ireland, the Caribbean, and Australia Conclusion

41 Another Green World 42 Scenic, or Topographical, Poetry 43 Ekphrastic Poetry

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