02279cam a2200325 i 4500 22075501 20251209142018.0 210610s2022 nyu 000 0 eng 2021025741 9780525564133 (paperback) 22075501 DLC eng rda DLC DLC AU pcc Alfaisal Main Library PN1042 .L36 2022 Leithauser, Brad, author. Rhyme's rooms : the architecture of poetry / Brad Leithauser. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©2022 350 pages 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi book" "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"-- Poetics History. Poetry History and criticism. Literary criticism. lcgft lcc BOOKS 608155 608155 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2025-12-09 0 PN1042 .L36 2022 AU00000000021086 2025-12-09 14:21:27 75.00 2025-12-09 BOOKS