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Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.
Charles Hartman is Poet in Residence and Lucy Marsh Haskell ’19 Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA, where he teaches poetry writing, modern and contemporary poetry, and song. He is the author of seven collections of poems, most recently New & Selected Poems (2008), and critical books on free verse, jazz and poetry, and computer poetry.
List of Sidebars vii
Introduction 1
1 The Iambic Pentameter Line 7
2 Other Meters 49
3 Beyond the Line 99
4 Free Verse 151
5 Song 193
6 Advanced Topics 237
Glossary 275
Index of Poets and Poems 297
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