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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... length ( length of time consumed by the utter- ance of the syllable ) , and timbre or quality ( that is , fuzziness , hoarseness , sharpness ) . Clearly when some of these phonetic qualities are emphasized we say that the syllable is ...
... length ( length of time consumed by the utter- ance of the syllable ) , and timbre or quality ( that is , fuzziness , hoarseness , sharpness ) . Clearly when some of these phonetic qualities are emphasized we say that the syllable is ...
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... length , the closed couplet seems both by its nature and its historical associations to imply something special about the materials enclosed in it . It seems to imply a distinct isolation of those materials from related things , a ...
... length , the closed couplet seems both by its nature and its historical associations to imply something special about the materials enclosed in it . It seems to imply a distinct isolation of those materials from related things , a ...
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... length of the lines becomes an indispensable element of meaning . The contribution of line length to meaning is a phenomenon which underlies a whole tradition of exotic " shaped " poems : the formal name of such a poem is Carmen ...
... length of the lines becomes an indispensable element of meaning . The contribution of line length to meaning is a phenomenon which underlies a whole tradition of exotic " shaped " poems : the formal name of such a poem is Carmen ...
Contenido
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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