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For decades Lewis Turco's The Book of Forms has been standard in the libraries of writers, teachers, scholars, and others who care about the craft of poetry. Now Turco has expanded and updated "the poet's bible" once again, this time incorporating a collection of "odd and invented forms," which adds many interesting ancient and modern prosodies and forms with new examples written by contemporary poets old and young.

Lewis Putnam Turco is an emeritus professor of English, and founding director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and of the Department of Creative Writing at the State University of New York College at Oswego. He has published original books of criticism, drama, fiction, memoirs, reference, and twenty six collections of his poems.

Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition	p. xi
The Elements of Poetry	p. 1
Introduction to the Discipline	p. 3
Modes of Writing	p. 4
The Levels of Poetry	p. 4
Prosody	p. 5
The Levels of Poetry	p. 7
The Typographical Level	p. 7
The Sonic Level	p. 10
Prose Poetry	p. 10
Isoverbal Prosody	p. 17
Syllabic Prosody	p. 18
Accentual Prosody	p. 18
The Rules of Scansion in English	p. 19
Accentual-Syllabic Prosody	p. 32
The Sensory Level	p. 54
The Ideational Level	p. 67
Glossary of Poetic Terms	p. 69
Form-Finder Index	p. 89
Introduction to the Index	p. 91
Specific Forms	p. 92
General Forms	p. 98
Notation	p. 101
Traditional and Recently Invented Verse Forms	p. 105
Dramatic Poetry	p. 107
Lyric Poetry	p. 117
Narrative Poetry	p. 378
Appendix: A Chronology of Postmodern Books Concerning Verse Forms	p. 397
Bibliography	p. 399
Publication Credits	p. 405
Author and Title Index	p. 413
General Index	p. 425
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The Book of Forms

The Book of Forms

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