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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... language — Versification . 2. Poetics . I. Baker , David , 1954- PE 1505.M48 821.009 — dc20 1996 96-27935 CIP Excerpts from " Burnt Norton " in Four Quartets , copyright 1943 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot ...
... language — Versification . 2. Poetics . I. Baker , David , 1954- PE 1505.M48 821.009 — dc20 1996 96-27935 CIP Excerpts from " Burnt Norton " in Four Quartets , copyright 1943 by T. S. Eliot and renewed 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot ...
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... language . " It is the pace , the pitch and fall , of language , the breathing , walking , tumbling , puls- ing dynamic of our words interacting with each other . Rhythm gives poetry an essential component — the movement of music in the ...
... language . " It is the pace , the pitch and fall , of language , the breathing , walking , tumbling , puls- ing dynamic of our words interacting with each other . Rhythm gives poetry an essential component — the movement of music in the ...
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... language's cadences utterly familiar to the body , an essence as physical and pri- mary as the heartbeat , which is itself ( depending on the position of the cardiologist's stethoscope ) either a trochee , LUB - dub , or an iamb , lub ...
... language's cadences utterly familiar to the body , an essence as physical and pri- mary as the heartbeat , which is itself ( depending on the position of the cardiologist's stethoscope ) either a trochee , LUB - dub , or an iamb , lub ...
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... language itself . This should not be news to us . And yet the rich , inclusive possibilities of contemporary poetry may also be jeop- ardized by proprietary claims limiting its formal , its aesthetic , and its social range . Would our ...
... language itself . This should not be news to us . And yet the rich , inclusive possibilities of contemporary poetry may also be jeop- ardized by proprietary claims limiting its formal , its aesthetic , and its social range . Would our ...
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... language itself , the practice and meaning of meter evolve with use and with develop- ing theories of poetry , rhetoric , and critical theory . Just so , Meter in English : A Critical Engagement is not a closed argument but rather a ...
... language itself , the practice and meaning of meter evolve with use and with develop- ing theories of poetry , rhetoric , and critical theory . Just so , Meter in English : A Critical Engagement is not a closed argument but rather a ...
Contenido
3 | |
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.