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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... metrist , is one poet who is quite deliberately weighing and measuring feet in his famous passage from “ An Essay on Criticism " designed to illustrate the first of our princi- ples , the reinforcement of effects of weight or difficulty ...
... metrist , is one poet who is quite deliberately weighing and measuring feet in his famous passage from “ An Essay on Criticism " designed to illustrate the first of our princi- ples , the reinforcement of effects of weight or difficulty ...
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... metrist like Donald Hall ; in " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville , 1955 , " addressing his father , he does so : Tonight you lie in Whitneyville again , Near where you lived , and near the woods or farms Which Eli Whitney settled with the ...
... metrist like Donald Hall ; in " Christmas Eve at Whitneyville , 1955 , " addressing his father , he does so : Tonight you lie in Whitneyville again , Near where you lived , and near the woods or farms Which Eli Whitney settled with the ...
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... metrist , and thus perhaps stands a better chance of producing something ultimately which will exploit simultaneously all the resources of language rather than merely some of them . He reveals that he knows what density of texture is ...
... metrist , and thus perhaps stands a better chance of producing something ultimately which will exploit simultaneously all the resources of language rather than merely some of them . He reveals that he knows what density of texture is ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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