Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody [Paperback]

Charles O. Hartman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 199 pages
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press; 1 edition (September 9, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810113163
• ISBN-13: 978-0810113169
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #458,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, January 27, 1998

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This review is from: Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody (Paperback)

I read this book in graduate school in its original edition. I don't know that I've ever read a better treatment of the subject. Hartman makes an excellent case for free verse as a rigorous form, and his discussion of prosody should be required reading for all teachers of 20th century poetry and any poet who wants to work in this form.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely required reading for any serious poet/scholar., January 2, 2004

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"semanticfields" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody (Paperback)

This actually is NOT the reprint edition (the previous reviewer's remarks to the contrary). ISBN 0-691-10185-X (this edition) is the original Princeton University Press edition (paperback) that contains the "Appendix: Full Text of Three Quoted Poems" (Moore, Larkin, Berryman). The Northwestern reprint that the previous reviewer is referring to is a different edition (ISBN 0-8101-1316-3). This Princeton edition is out of print and hard to obtain, but well worth it.