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001			on1249629801
003			OCoLC
005			20220315132920.0
008			210610s2022 nyu b 000 0 eng
010			_a 2021025741
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dIHY _dGZD _dNFG
020			_a9780525655053 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0525655050 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1249629801
042			_apcc
092			_a808.1 _bL533
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLeithauser, Brad, _eauthor. _9202147
245	1	0	_aRhyme's rooms : _bthe architecture of poetry / _cBrad Leithauser.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2202
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_ax, 350 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aForeword: A first step, a first stop -- Meeting the Funesians -- The prosodic contract -- Poetic architecture -- Stanzas -- Enjambment -- Defining and refining -- The marriage of meter and rhyme (I) --Iambic pentameter -- Iambic tetrameter -- Rhyme and rhyme decay -- Spelling and the unexpected rhyme -- Rhyme poverty, rhyme richness -- Rhymes, and how we really talk -- Off rhyme : when good rhymes go bad --Rim rhyme -- The marriage of meter and rhyme (II) -- Wordplay and concision -- The look of poetry -- Song lyrics -- Dining with the Funesians -- Drinking with the Funesians -- The essential conservatism of poetry -- The essential radicalism of poetry.
520			_a"From the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they've been used over the centuries to assemble the most imperishable poems. We treasure our greatest poetry, Brad Leithauser reminds us in these pages, "not for its what but its how." In chapters on everything from iambic pentameter to how stanzas are put together to "rhyme and the way we really talk," Leithauser takes a deep dive into that how-the very architecture of poetry. He explains how meter and rhyme work in fruitful opposition ("Meter is prospective; rhyme is retrospective"), how the weirdnesses of spelling in English are a boon to the poet; why an off rhyme will often succeed where a perfect rhyme would not; why Shakespeare and Frost can sound so similar, despite the centuries separating them. And Leithauser is just as likely to invoke Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, or Boz Scaggs as he is Chaucer or Milton, Bishop or Swenson, providing enlightening play-by-plays of their memorable lines. Here is both an indispensable learning tool and a delightful journey into the art of the poem--a chance for new poets and readers of poetry to grasp the fundamentals, and for experienced poets and readers to rediscover excellent works in all their fascinating detail"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPoetics _xHistory.
650		0	_aPoetry _xHistory and criticism. _991465
655		7	_aLiterary criticism. _2lcgft _9389769
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