Poetic Meter and Poetic FormRandom House, 1979 - 188 páginas "This book might be required reading for all students of poetry because it makes wonderfully clear the relationship of metrics to the formal achievement of meaning ... Fussell's command of his subject and his never-failing common sense will guarantee ... enrichment for anyone who takes the time to read this book."--Frank Lentricchia, Jr., PoetryDonated by Prabu Vasan. |
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LibraryThing Review
Crítica de los usuarios - rooze - LibraryThingThis is, indeed, an authoritative guide to meter and form. However, Fussell's arrogance had me running to other equally authoritative yet substantially less elitist sources. Try Mary Oliver's Rules of the Dance or Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled instead. Leer comentario completo
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Crítica de los usuarios - michaelm42071 - LibraryThingThis is not the first book to read on the subject of how form assists meaning in poetry; for that I would go back to John Ciardi’s How Does a Poem Mean? But Fussell’s book is a good, succinct one for ... Leer comentario completo
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The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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Poetic Meter and Poetic Form Paul Fussell,Donald T Regan Chair of English Literature Paul Fussell Vista de fragmentos - 1965 |
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