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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... poetic com- position , in the moment of composition itself the poet is most conspicuously performing as metrist . And the same principle holds for the reader : at the moment of his first apprehension of the poem he functions less as ...
... poetic com- position , in the moment of composition itself the poet is most conspicuously performing as metrist . And the same principle holds for the reader : at the moment of his first apprehension of the poem he functions less as ...
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... poet . The other poetic techniques of order - rhyme , line division , stan- zaic form , and over - all structure - are all projections and magnifica- tions of the kind of formalizing repetition which meter embodies . They are meter writ ...
... poet . The other poetic techniques of order - rhyme , line division , stan- zaic form , and over - all structure - are all projections and magnifica- tions of the kind of formalizing repetition which meter embodies . They are meter writ ...
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... poetic form which strikes the reader somehow as an unsatisfactory or in- sufficiently universal emblem of the shape of general psychic experience . The shape which a poetic stanza cuts in time was once , before the widespread use of ...
... poetic form which strikes the reader somehow as an unsatisfactory or in- sufficiently universal emblem of the shape of general psychic experience . The shape which a poetic stanza cuts in time was once , before the widespread use of ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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