Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxiv
Part I
1 “To Get the News from Poems”: Poetry as Genre 3
Jahan Ramazani
2 What Was New Formalism? 17
David Caplan
3 Meter 34
Peter L. Groves
4 The Stanza: Echo Chambers 53
Debra Fried
5 Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The Contemporary
American Ode 64
Ann Keniston
6 English Elegies 77
Neil Roberts
7 The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic
Postmortem? 93
Eve C. Sorum
8 Free Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal 104
Lisa
Sewell
9 On “the Beat Inevitable”: The Ballad 117
Romana
Huk
10 Oddity or Tour de Force? The Sestina 139
Nicole
Ollier
11 The Rondeau: Still Doing the Rounds 157
Maria
Johnston
12 Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns: The Villanelle
171
Karen Jackson Ford
13 Looping the Loop: Terza Rima 188
George
Szirtes
14 Ottava Rima: Quietly Facetious upon Everything 206
Michael Hinds
15 “Named Airs”: American Sonnets (Stevens to Bidart)
220
Meg Tyler
16 African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and Personal
Dignity 234
Jeff Westover
17 The Liberties of Blank Verse 250
Patrick
Jackson
18 Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet 263
David
Wheatley
19 In a Sea of Indeterminacy: Fourteen Ways of Looking at
Haiku 277
Peter Harris
20 On the Pantoum, and the Pantunite Element in Poetry
293
Geoff Ward
21 “Gists and Piths”: The Free-Verse Revolution in
Contemporary American Poetry 306
Marie-Christine
Lemardeley
22 The Emergent Prose Poem 318
Andy Brown
23 Concrete/Visual Poetry 330
Fiona McMahon
24 Poems that Count: Procedural Poetry 348
Hélène
Aji
25 Modes of Found Poetry 361
Lacy Rumsey
Part II
26 “Horny Morning Mood”: The Aubade and Alba 379
Kit
Fryatt
27 Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul: The Nocturne
390
Erik Martiny
28 Heaney, Virgil, and Contemporary Katabasis 404
Rachel Falconer
29 The Aisling 420
Bernard O’Donoghue
30 The Printed Voice 435
Yann Tholoniat
31 Rewriting the People’s Newspaper: Trinidadian Calypso
after 1956 446
John Thieme
32 Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: “Awful but
Cheerful” 459
Bonnie Costello
33 Parnassus in Pillory: Satirical Verse 478
Todd
Nathan Thompson
34 Poetry and Its Occasions: “Undoing the Folded Lie”
490
Stephen Wilson
35 On Verse Letters 505
Philip Coleman
36 “Containing History”: Epic Poetry and Revisions of the
Genre 521
Alex Runchman
37 T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem 532
Jennifer
Clarvoe
38 Making War Poetry Contemporary 543
Rainer Emig
39 Bestiary USA: The Modern American Bestiary Poem
555
Jo Gill
40 “From Arcadia to Bunyah”: Mutation and Diversity in the
Pastoral Mode 568
Karina Williamson
41 Another Green World: Contemporary Garden Poetry
584
Mark Scroggins
42 Scenic, or Topographical, Poetry 598
Stephen
Burt
43 Ekphrastic Poetry: In and Out of the Museum 614
Jonathan Ellis
Index 627
Dr Erik Martiny teaches Anglophone literature and film inAix-en-Provence, France. He has published numerous articles onpoets such as Peter Redgrove, Frank O Hara, Sylvia Plath,Paul Durcan, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon, Ted Hughes and DerekWalcott. He has also written on the connections between film andfiction, having recently edited a volume of essays entitled Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne (2009), as well asthe book Intertextualite et Filiation Paternelle dans laPoesie Anglophone (2009).
If there is some conceptual wobble in the nature of this undertaking, this Companion is nevertheless a useful, informative and yes companionable volume on which its editor may be congratulated. (English Studies, 1 October 2014)
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