Poetic meter and poetic formExcerpts from distinctive poems illustrate the author's appreciation of the metrical and formal aspects of poetry |
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User Review - rooze - LibraryThingThis is, indeed, an authoritative guide to meter and form. However, Fussell's arrogance had me running to other equally authoritative yet substantially less elitist sources. Try Mary Oliver's Rules of the Dance or Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled instead. Read full review
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User Review - michaelm42071 - LibraryThingThis is not the first book to read on the subject of how form assists meaning in poetry; for that I would go back to John Ciardi’s How Does a Poem Mean? But Fussell’s book is a good, succinct one for ... Read full review
Contents
part one Poetic Meter | 4 |
The Nature of Meter | 5 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Copyright | |
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accentual accentual-syllabic action anapestic beginning blank verse caesura century classical conventions Copyright critical D. H. Lawrence delight device effect elements Eliot emotional emphasis English poetry enjambment example experience exploit expressive Faber feet final fixed forms foot formal free verse free-verse poem Frost heroic couplet iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee irony kind language logical meaning meter metrical variations metrist musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization pattern pentameter line perhaps permission Petrarchan sonnet poet poet's poetic line Pope principle prose prosodic pyrrhic quatrain reader reinforce rhetorical rhyme scheme rhythmical scansion seems sense sestet shape Song spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stressed syllables strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee tetrameter couplets texture thing thou tion traditional trisyllabic substitution trochaic trochaic substitution trochee turn unstressed versification W. H. Auden white space Whitman's words Yeats
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| Title | Poetic meter and poetic form |
| Author | Paul Fussell |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Random House, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0394321200, 9780394321202 |
| Length | 188 pages |
| Subjects | › English language English language - Versification English language/ Versification Fiction / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Literary Criticism / Reference Poetry / General |
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