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
... suggest the all- important difference : " It is not meters , but a meter - making argu- ment that makes a poem . " Or as Pound puts it , " [ Meter ] can't be merely a careless dash off , with no grip and no real hold to the words and ...
... suggest the all- important difference : " It is not meters , but a meter - making argu- ment that makes a poem . " Or as Pound puts it , " [ Meter ] can't be merely a careless dash off , with no grip and no real hold to the words and ...
Page 152
... suggest that the past can be recaptured , to suggest that the intolerable fractures and dislocations of modern history have not really occurred at all , or , what is worse , to suggest that they may have occurred but that poetry should ...
... suggest that the past can be recaptured , to suggest that the intolerable fractures and dislocations of modern history have not really occurred at all , or , what is worse , to suggest that they may have occurred but that poetry should ...
Page 159
... suggest that the formality of a short poem ought to accord with some timid or reactionary convention of what organic form is : it is not to suggest that the traditional idiom of Bridges is the only one within which structural meaning ...
... suggest that the formality of a short poem ought to accord with some timid or reactionary convention of what organic form is : it is not to suggest that the traditional idiom of Bridges is the only one within which structural meaning ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
Copyright | |
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