This book investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium - its characteristic rhythms, its phonetic qualit

Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in

A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhet

A straightforward and practical introduction to rhythm and meter in poetry in English.

How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a