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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... rhythms and structure of poetry . When David Baker cir- culated Wallace's essay to other poets and students of prosody ... rhythm . Taken as a whole , the collection becomes a lastingly valuable teaching guide to meter as it's understood ...
... rhythms and structure of poetry . When David Baker cir- culated Wallace's essay to other poets and students of prosody ... rhythm . Taken as a whole , the collection becomes a lastingly valuable teaching guide to meter as it's understood ...
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... Rhythm is the one of poetry's most haunting and abiding forms of repetition . In The New Book of Forms , Lewis Putnam Turco calls rhythm the " movement of cadences in language . " It is the pace , the pitch and fall , of language , the ...
... Rhythm is the one of poetry's most haunting and abiding forms of repetition . In The New Book of Forms , Lewis Putnam Turco calls rhythm the " movement of cadences in language . " It is the pace , the pitch and fall , of language , the ...
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... rhythm , by making highly regular , and thereby artifi- cial , the naturally less even rhythms of our words . Meter is at once a source of beauty and of debate for poets and for the readers of poetry . . . and meter — flowing , lashing ...
... rhythm , by making highly regular , and thereby artifi- cial , the naturally less even rhythms of our words . Meter is at once a source of beauty and of debate for poets and for the readers of poetry . . . and meter — flowing , lashing ...
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... rhythm that " In English the meter is either strict iambic or loose iambic . " And yet , taken with his proposals ... rhythms as useful metri- cal feet within the iambic accentual - syllabic norm , but not as meters in their own rights ...
... rhythm that " In English the meter is either strict iambic or loose iambic . " And yet , taken with his proposals ... rhythms as useful metri- cal feet within the iambic accentual - syllabic norm , but not as meters in their own rights ...
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... rhythm , and so employ numerical notations of 1 to 4 to indicate metric relation- ships of as many rhythmic degrees . Following Otto Jespersen's method , they mark the heaviest stress with 4 ( though Woods , in her book Natural Emphasis ...
... rhythm , and so employ numerical notations of 1 to 4 to indicate metric relation- ships of as many rhythmic degrees . Following Otto Jespersen's method , they mark the heaviest stress with 4 ( though Woods , in her book Natural Emphasis ...
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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.