"Winner of the 2013 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Robert Penn Warren Center and Western Kentucky University" "Co-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association" "Winner of the 2012 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association" Meredith Martin is associate professor of English at Princeton University. Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee?...

"This is a book for anyone," Glyn Maxwell declares of On Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art, it will be especially prized by writers and readers who wish to understand why and how poetic technique matters. When Maxwell states, "With rhyme what matters is the distance between rhymes" or "the line-break is punctuation," he compresses into simple, memorable phrases a great deal of practical wisdom. In seven chapters......

Explains what rhyme, meter, and other word music are, and provides examples showing how they are used in poetry.