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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... Susanne Woods PART THREE Completing the Circle Robert Wallace 265 279 283 295 Bibliography 351 Contributors 357 Index of Proposal Discussions 361 Index of Authors 363 INTRODUCTION David Baker Poetry is an art of repetitions .
... Susanne Woods PART THREE Completing the Circle Robert Wallace 265 279 283 295 Bibliography 351 Contributors 357 Index of Proposal Discussions 361 Index of Authors 363 INTRODUCTION David Baker Poetry is an art of repetitions .
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... discussion resulted in our first notion that this book be composed of Wallace's essay and the letters themselves . But it became clear to us that these letters — and subsequent others from additional inter- ested writers were only ...
... discussion resulted in our first notion that this book be composed of Wallace's essay and the letters themselves . But it became clear to us that these letters — and subsequent others from additional inter- ested writers were only ...
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... discussion of meter should still remain focused on Wallace's concerns . This component of the book is particularly exciting : every contribution was written for this book and is heretofore unpublished . I invited the contributors to ...
... discussion of meter should still remain focused on Wallace's concerns . This component of the book is particularly exciting : every contribution was written for this book and is heretofore unpublished . I invited the contributors to ...
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... discussions revolves around the nature of meter itself , about what we mean when we say " meter . " As I mentioned previously , the root of meter suggests that a meter is a kind of measurement . But what is being measured , and by what ...
... discussions revolves around the nature of meter itself , about what we mean when we say " meter . " As I mentioned previously , the root of meter suggests that a meter is a kind of measurement . But what is being measured , and by what ...
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... discussion in part 2 , probe the reasons for and implications of this assertion . Wallace does not want to discard syllabics as an impor- tant compositional method , but he wishes to exclude both it and accentuals from the category of ...
... discussion in part 2 , probe the reasons for and implications of this assertion . Wallace does not want to discard syllabics as an impor- tant compositional method , but he wishes to exclude both it and accentuals from the category of ...
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
Pasajes populares
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.