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Title: Rhyme`s Reason: A Guide to English Verse, Third Edition
by John Hollander
ISBN: 0300088329
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $11.95
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Average Customer Rating: 5

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Rating: 5
Summary: Proves that rhyme can still be relevant
Comment: This is a clever and masterful book. The author demolishes the new fashional nonsense about rhyme being creatively passe. Rhyme is not necessarily restrictive or formulaic. It can still be powerful, enjoyable and richly expressive.

Rating: 5
Summary: Wow! I am so glad I have this
Comment: I can hardly contain myself. After reading through several books about how to write poetry I came to this one. Though I am almost jumping for joy, I have a soupcon of sadness, because I wish I had started here. Hollander's book is like a good poem: concise, entertaining, and ultimately full of wisdom. Just compare Hollander's examples on forms (in the forms!) to the lackluster examples in The Book of Forms by Lewis Turco.

Don't be fooled by the title. This book is about all aspects of poetry, including free verse (and even 'concrete' poems). While Rhyme's Reason has a smaller selection of forms than The Book of Forms and a shorter discussion of prosody than All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing, it had more than enough meat for me. And I can unhesitatingly recommend it for first forays into the appreciation and composition of poetry. Make sure to get the Third Edition, of the year 2000, which has a few added goodies. Enjoy!

Rating: 5
Summary: Witty education
Comment: Clear, concise, informed, and witty. This guide to the forms of English verse from our greatest living verse technician goes beyond counting beats and diagramming rhyme schemes to discuss the formal aspects of rhetorical figures -- and how all these help create poetic meaning. All told, it's the most valuable book of its type I've ever read.

Contrary to one reviewer, I find the expansions of the second edition -- especially the analysis of verbal mimesis -- useful, and prefer this over the other editions. The third edition has added an anthology of examples taken from the wild, in addition to Hollander's well-bred examples, of forms discussed in the text. This is nice enough in its way, but not essential. Worse, it has (in the first printing at least) a large number of infuriating typographical errors, including incorrect page references.

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