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008			210610s2022 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a 2021025741
020			_a9780525564133 _q(paperback)
035			_a22075501
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dDLC _dAU
042			_apcc
049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	0	0	_aPN1042 _b.L36 2022
100	1		_aLeithauser, Brad, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRhyme's rooms : _bthe architecture of poetry / _cBrad Leithauser.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c©2022
300			_a350 pages _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"
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"--
650		0	_aPoetics _xHistory.
650		0	_aPoetry _xHistory and criticism.
655		7	_aLiterary criticism. _2lcgft
942			_2lcc _cBOOKS
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