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 109
... poem . The texture , he found , is “ local , " unique to a given poem , while the structure involves the larger elements of form which ally the poem with a tradition or with history or with a wider world of recurring shapes . So far we ...
... poem . The texture , he found , is “ local , " unique to a given poem , while the structure involves the larger elements of form which ally the poem with a tradition or with history or with a wider world of recurring shapes . So far we ...
Page 159
... poem justifies its form in its meaning , and that Wilde's does not . Another general principle of poetic form which experience tends to confirm is this : the shorter the poem , the more perfect we expect to be its accommodation of form ...
... poem justifies its form in its meaning , and that Wilde's does not . Another general principle of poetic form which experience tends to confirm is this : the shorter the poem , the more perfect we expect to be its accommodation of form ...
Page 160
Paul Fussell. poem in a shorter work than they do in a longer . Every part of a short poem is large , just as every part of a large poem is small- just one of the occasional , tiny defects of taste in Paradise Lost would sink a sonnet ...
Paul Fussell. poem in a shorter work than they do in a longer . Every part of a short poem is large , just as every part of a large poem is small- just one of the occasional , tiny defects of taste in Paradise Lost would sink a sonnet ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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