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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... is eclectic , at best . Few critics or poets write about it at length , and those who do often dis- agree utterly about even the most basic terms , methods , uses , and meanings of meter . X. J. Kennedy has rather playfully INTRODUCTION xi.
... is eclectic , at best . Few critics or poets write about it at length , and those who do often dis- agree utterly about even the most basic terms , methods , uses , and meanings of meter . X. J. Kennedy has rather playfully INTRODUCTION xi.
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... terms to cover English practice thus introduced the possibility of confusion in ter- minology . Entities may seem to exist in English ( e.g. , the cretic foot : // ) , when they do not in actuality or , to put it differently , when they ...
... terms to cover English practice thus introduced the possibility of confusion in ter- minology . Entities may seem to exist in English ( e.g. , the cretic foot : // ) , when they do not in actuality or , to put it differently , when they ...
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... term " feminine ending , " we should say simply extra - syllable ending , which may be abbreviated as e - s ending ... terms for this convention are current , among them METER IN ENGLISH 5.
... term " feminine ending , " we should say simply extra - syllable ending , which may be abbreviated as e - s ending ... terms for this convention are current , among them METER IN ENGLISH 5.
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... terms both overstate and seem pejorative , I suggest that ( 2 ) For an omitted first syllable of a line , we should use the term anacrusis ( from Greek , meaning " the striking up of a tune " ) which Saintsbury allows in this sense ...
... terms both overstate and seem pejorative , I suggest that ( 2 ) For an omitted first syllable of a line , we should use the term anacrusis ( from Greek , meaning " the striking up of a tune " ) which Saintsbury allows in this sense ...
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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.