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 32
... regularity only to depart from it expressively . When he does compose a metrically regular line it is not because the metrical scheme tells him to , but because something in the matter he is embodying impels him toward a momentary ...
... regularity only to depart from it expressively . When he does compose a metrically regular line it is not because the metrical scheme tells him to , but because something in the matter he is embodying impels him toward a momentary ...
Page 70
... regularity- " smoothness , " the age was pleased to call it- seems to constitute one expression of the orderly and rationalistic impulses of the period . Although the best poets of the early eighteenth century ( poets like Dryden ...
... regularity- " smoothness , " the age was pleased to call it- seems to constitute one expression of the orderly and rationalistic impulses of the period . Although the best poets of the early eighteenth century ( poets like Dryden ...
Page 92
... regularity : iambic pentameter exerts its own kind of beguilements . In pentameter there is a universe of difference between a hapless or automatic regularity and an ex- pressive one ; between , say , the regularity of these lines from ...
... regularity : iambic pentameter exerts its own kind of beguilements . In pentameter there is a universe of difference between a hapless or automatic regularity and an ex- pressive one ; between , say , the regularity of these lines from ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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