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Poetic meter and poetic form

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Random House, 1965 - Literary Criticism - 208 pages

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Contents

The Nature of Meter
3
The Technique of Scansion
20
Metrical Variations
36
Copyright

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Poetic meter and poetic form
Poetic meter and poetic form
Paul Fussell
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Poetic meter and poetic form
Poetic meter and poetic form
Paul Fussell
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Poetic Meter and Poetic Form
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form
Paul Fussell
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TitlePoetic meter and poetic form
Volume 3 of Random House studies in language and literature
Volume 3 of Studies in language and literature
AuthorPaul Fussell
PublisherRandom House, 1965
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized23 Jul 2010
Length208 pages
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English language
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Literary form
  
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