Poetic Meter and Poetic Form"This book might be required reading for all students of poetry because it makes wonderfully clear the relationship of metrics to the formal achievement of meaning ... Fussell's command of his subject and his never-failing common sense will guarantee ... enrichment for anyone who takes the time to read this book."--Frank Lentricchia, Jr., PoetryDonated by Prabu Vasan. |
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Page 73
... the staple system for poetry in Modern English . How closely a return like this to " the tradition " in metrics is con- nected with a similar conservative movement in general intel- lectual The Historical Dimension 73.
... the staple system for poetry in Modern English . How closely a return like this to " the tradition " in metrics is con- nected with a similar conservative movement in general intel- lectual The Historical Dimension 73.
Page 110
... closely circumscribed moments of emotion or argument . Since strophic structure is associated with music - the codas and repeats of music are analogous to the rhymes and refrains of lyric strophes - we expect the materials which ...
... closely circumscribed moments of emotion or argument . Since strophic structure is associated with music - the codas and repeats of music are analogous to the rhymes and refrains of lyric strophes - we expect the materials which ...
Page 128
... closely , have not , we should probably inquire less into any abstract aesthetic or mathematical theory than into the psychological données of human nature . Certain stanzaic forms have attained the eminence of fixity , less perhaps ...
... closely , have not , we should probably inquire less into any abstract aesthetic or mathematical theory than into the psychological données of human nature . Certain stanzaic forms have attained the eminence of fixity , less perhaps ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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