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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... language has become customary precisely because it measures the most conspicuous phonetic characteristic of that language . Meter , one of the primary correlatives of meaning in a poem , can " mean " in at least three ways . First , all ...
... language has become customary precisely because it measures the most conspicuous phonetic characteristic of that language . Meter , one of the primary correlatives of meaning in a poem , can " mean " in at least three ways . First , all ...
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... language . It is more accurate to speak of the history of English prosodies than of one English prosody , for ... language than , for example , the Romance tongues , stress has generally played a more significant part in the structure of ...
... language . It is more accurate to speak of the history of English prosodies than of one English prosody , for ... language than , for example , the Romance tongues , stress has generally played a more significant part in the structure of ...
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... language has changed , and each significant philological change projects us into an altered metrical world in which the meters of the past can be understood and appreciated but never again practiced . MIDDLE ENGLISH ( c . 1100 - c ...
... language has changed , and each significant philological change projects us into an altered metrical world in which the meters of the past can be understood and appreciated but never again practiced . MIDDLE ENGLISH ( c . 1100 - c ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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