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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... heroic or elegiac quatrain . It is sometimes called heroic because of its association with noble subjects during the Restoration . Dryden's " Annus Mirabilis " provides good examples of one sort of materials that most readers will ...
... heroic or elegiac quatrain . It is sometimes called heroic because of its association with noble subjects during the Restoration . Dryden's " Annus Mirabilis " provides good examples of one sort of materials that most readers will ...
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... heroic quatrain and one and one - half heroic couplets . It is associated with the narration of high and noble matters . Chaucer used it in " Troilus and Criseyde , " " The Parle- ment of Foules , " " The Clerk's Tale , " and " The Man ...
... heroic quatrain and one and one - half heroic couplets . It is associated with the narration of high and noble matters . Chaucer used it in " Troilus and Criseyde , " " The Parle- ment of Foules , " " The Clerk's Tale , " and " The Man ...
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... heroic which swells and swells until it bursts into the mock - heroic . The stanza is an appropriate vehicle for a poem which , as Byron said , is " meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything . " The very rhyme scheme ...
... heroic which swells and swells until it bursts into the mock - heroic . The stanza is an appropriate vehicle for a poem which , as Byron said , is " meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything . " The very rhyme scheme ...
Contenido
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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