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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Paul Fussell. 1 The Nature of Meter " Rhythm thm must have meaning , ” Ezra Pound insisted in 1915. And he is right . The empirical study of poetry will con- vince us that meter is a prime physical and emotional constituent of poetic ...
Paul Fussell. 1 The Nature of Meter " Rhythm thm must have meaning , ” Ezra Pound insisted in 1915. And he is right . The empirical study of poetry will con- vince us that meter is a prime physical and emotional constituent of poetic ...
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... meaning as a form alone is demonstrated by such a historical phenomenon as its lack of popularity among poets in the eighteenth century . These poets were acute enough to sense not merely that the sonnet as a form tends to imply a ...
... meaning as a form alone is demonstrated by such a historical phenomenon as its lack of popularity among poets in the eighteenth century . These poets were acute enough to sense not merely that the sonnet as a form tends to imply a ...
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... meaning can develop itself . Despite its departures from certain formal conventions , William Carlos Williams's " The Red Wheelbarrow " beautifully justifies its quadripartite form : so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with ...
... meaning can develop itself . Despite its departures from certain formal conventions , William Carlos Williams's " The Red Wheelbarrow " beautifully justifies its quadripartite form : so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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