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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... prose sense " of the words in poetic lines , and until we master the art of understanding and marking the rhetorical emphasis of the words as if they were prose we are un- prepared to venture upon the next step in scansion , a step ...
... prose sense " of the words in poetic lines , and until we master the art of understanding and marking the rhetorical emphasis of the words as if they were prose we are un- prepared to venture upon the next step in scansion , a step ...
Page 165
... prose writers are innocent of it . In the same way , a writer of effective prose has mastered a general principle governing all events which occur in time , whether athletic contests , seductions , or sentences . The principle is that ...
... prose writers are innocent of it . In the same way , a writer of effective prose has mastered a general principle governing all events which occur in time , whether athletic contests , seductions , or sentences . The principle is that ...
Page 167
... prose writer's , is infinitely more complex : while the prose writer is adjusting his matter to only one " stanza form " -the sentence- the poet must be a master not only of this form but , simultane- ously , of another as well , his ...
... prose writer's , is infinitely more complex : while the prose writer is adjusting his matter to only one " stanza form " -the sentence- the poet must be a master not only of this form but , simultane- ously , of another as well , his ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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