Prose Keys to Modern Poetry

Karl Shapiro

Literature & Fiction

Harper and Row, 1962

<p>Shows how to use meter, rhythm, rhyme, and traditional forms in writing poetry, and offers examples from English and American literature</p>

A Prosody Handbook

Reference

Robert Beum

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Harpercollins College Div

<p>Karl Shapiro, who won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1945 for his second collection, V-Letter and Other Poems, is an American poetic treasure and an acknowledged master of lyrical poetry whose subjects have ranged from commonplace objects and occurrences to biting political commentary to open celebrations of the contradictions in humanity's moral nature.</p>

The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

Adult Bookstore

Random House]

First edition. Baltimore-born author. Bookseller's label on the front flap of the dust jacket, lower corners bumped, lightly soiled dust jacket. x , 37+ 1 pages. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket.. small 8vo..

White-Haired Lover

This book restores to print two important verse-essays on the art of poetry by one of America's most honored poets. "Trial of a Poet" was born of Karl Shapiro's serving on the jury that awarded the first Bollingen Prize in Poetry, voting on moral grounds against giving the prize to the winner, Ezra Pound. "Essay on Rime" confronts the confusions Shapiro found in poetry in general and in the work of many specific, noted poets. Shapiro wrote this 2072-line blank-verse meditation on "the treble confusion / In modern rime" in 1945, when he was thirty and serving a stint with the U.S. Army in the South Pacific--far from any library. Rich in both insight and example, "Essay on Rime" discusses a range of subjects, including prosody, idiom, Freud, rhetoric, grammar, Marxist poets, content, and translation. "Essay on Rime" also confronts the particular approaches of such poets as W. H. Auden, Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Andrew Marvell, Pound, Walt Whitman, and W. B. Yeats. As David Lehman writes in his foreword, "More than a half century since it was written, this triumph of rhetoric retains its ability to provoke, instruct, and astound." Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) was a prolific poet, critic, essayist, editor of literary journals, and teacher. Robert Phillips is John and Rebecca Moores Scholar and Professor of English, University of Houston.

Essay on Rime: with Trial of a Poet (Poets On Poetry)

Robert Phillips

History & Criticism

University of Michigan Press

Love and War Art and God: The Poems of Karl Shapiro

Stuart Wright

Love & War Art & God

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