Meter in English: A Critical EngagementDavid Baker University of Arkansas Press, 1996 M01 1 - 368 páginas Renowned poets and experts in metrics respond to Robert Wallace's pivotal essay, Meter in English, which clarifies and simplifies methods of studying poetry. |
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... the beautiful is to combine the aspects of language and music : " I would define , in brief , the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty . " This union of the body and meaning , of music and words , is X DAVID BAKER.
... the beautiful is to combine the aspects of language and music : " I would define , in brief , the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty . " This union of the body and meaning , of music and words , is X DAVID BAKER.
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... defined as one ten- millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole , just over a yard in length to us , or approximately 39.37 inches . Today , more precisely , we measure a meter according to a frequency of atomic ...
... defined as one ten- millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole , just over a yard in length to us , or approximately 39.37 inches . Today , more precisely , we measure a meter according to a frequency of atomic ...
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... defining anapestic , trochaic , and dactylic rhythms as useful metri- cal feet within the iambic accentual - syllabic norm , but not as meters in their own rights , Wallace both clarifies and simplifies the system . Some of his ...
... defining anapestic , trochaic , and dactylic rhythms as useful metri- cal feet within the iambic accentual - syllabic norm , but not as meters in their own rights , Wallace both clarifies and simplifies the system . Some of his ...
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... definitions with illustrations of those definitions . Here , instead , the reader will find many of the central issues of met- rics probed in context as these writers undertake their critical exchange . In other words , the present book ...
... definitions with illustrations of those definitions . Here , instead , the reader will find many of the central issues of met- rics probed in context as these writers undertake their critical exchange . In other words , the present book ...
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... defining devices — whether or not any particular poem at hand is metrical , whether poetry becomes more meter - based in the future , as some argue , or whether poets eventually will abandon that formal strategy altogether , as others ...
... defining devices — whether or not any particular poem at hand is metrical , whether poetry becomes more meter - based in the future , as some argue , or whether poets eventually will abandon that formal strategy altogether , as others ...
Contenido
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PART TWO | 43 |
A RESPONSE | 45 |
A DEFENSE OF THE NONIAMBIC METERS | 59 |
METERMAKING ARGUMENTS | 75 |
A RESPONSE TO ROBERT WALLACE | 97 |
SOME RESPONSES TO ROBERT WALLACE | 109 |
A NEW FOOTING | 125 |
VERSE VS PROSEPROSODY VS METER | 249 |
METRICS AND PEDAGOGICAL ECONOMY | 265 |
TWO LETTERS | 279 |
A RESPONSE TO ROBERT WALLACE | 283 |
PART THREE | 293 |
COMPLETING THE CIRCLE | 295 |
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CONTRIBUTORS | 357 |
METRICAL PLEASURES OF OUR TIME | 151 |
STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY | 169 |
METER AND THE FORTUNES OF THE NUMERICAL IMAGINATION | 197 |
STAUNCH METER GREAT SONG | 221 |
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Términos y frases comunes
accentual meter accentual verse accentual-syllabic meter accentual-syllabic verse amphibrach anacrusis anapestic Anapests and dactyls basis for meter caesura century conventional critical dactylic dactylic meters discussion double-iamb e-s ending English meter English verse example exist in English extra-syllable ending foot in English four-stress free verse Gioia Greek green thought hear iamb iambic line iambic meter iambic norm iambic pentameter iambic verse Jeffers Jespersen lables language levels of stress linguistic Marianne Moore measure meter in English metrical stress metrists Moore's Nims non-iambic meters number of syllables pattern poem poem's poetic poets Professor Wallace proposition prose prosodists pyrrhic foot quantity reader regular rhyme rhythm rhythmic Robert Wallace Robinson Jeffers Saintsbury scansion seems sense sound speech stress spondee stanza stressed and unstressed strong stresses syllabic meter syllabic verse syllable count syllables tetrameter Timothy Steele tion traditional trochaic trochaic meter trochee unstressed syllables variation versification words writing
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Página v - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.