Donald Justice: Compendium — Essays and Reflections on Poetic Meter and Form

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Omnidawn, paperback

Publication Date: February 07, 2017

Publisher Marketing: A collage of essays and metrical samples from one of the great prosody scholars

Justice’s insights serve as a sort of de facto taxonomy, an organically designed system that he uses to present his lecture on each respective aspect of the evolution of poetic form. There is no formal thesis here, but rather a kind of scrapbook that has a broader motive. The material possesses no hidden secrets; the treasures lie in plain sight and simply need be discerned to open the artist’s mind to their possibilities.

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