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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... poets and students of prosody , the ten propositions it contained elicited an excited and power- ful reaction from each respondent . Some strongly concurred ; others expressed rous- ing disagreement . United States Poet Laureate Robert ...
... poets and students of prosody , the ten propositions it contained elicited an excited and power- ful reaction from each respondent . Some strongly concurred ; others expressed rous- ing disagreement . United States Poet Laureate Robert ...
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... poetic repetitions are manifold : a returning phrase may enchant , a repeated line may emphasize , a pattern of rhymes or repetitions may hold itself longer in the memory . The recurrent sounds of poetry embody the music of the language ...
... poetic repetitions are manifold : a returning phrase may enchant , a repeated line may emphasize , a pattern of rhymes or repetitions may hold itself longer in the memory . The recurrent sounds of poetry embody the music of the language ...
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... poets as they seek to exploit the manifold pos- sibilities of repetition . Some say that meter makes language's cadences utterly familiar to the body , an essence as physical and pri- mary as the heartbeat , which is itself ( depending ...
... poets as they seek to exploit the manifold pos- sibilities of repetition . Some say that meter makes language's cadences utterly familiar to the body , an essence as physical and pri- mary as the heartbeat , which is itself ( depending ...
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... poets , as " the Howl - dominated Dark Ages of American poetry , " and the New Formalists with their dedication to ... poetic form are not just personal , but yes , cultural issues . The choices we make as writers and as readers are ...
... poets , as " the Howl - dominated Dark Ages of American poetry , " and the New Formalists with their dedication to ... poetic form are not just personal , but yes , cultural issues . The choices we make as writers and as readers are ...
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... poet- ics in books of their own . Most , but not all , are practicing , indeed masterful , poets ; most , not all , are or have been full - time teachers . Many have considerable experience as translators , from a great vari- ety of ...
... poet- ics in books of their own . Most , but not all , are practicing , indeed masterful , poets ; most , not all , are or have been full - time teachers . Many have considerable experience as translators , from a great vari- ety 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
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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.