The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody, Revised Edition by Alfred Corn

The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody, Revised Edition

Alfred Corn

146 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction poetry reference informative reflective medium-paced

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"The Poem's Heartbeat" is a progressive, step-by-step introduction to prosody--the art and science of metrical composition in poetry. This second edition includes a new appendix of sample scansions, and a comprehensive index of poets and poems cit...

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