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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... principle to keep in mind is that the poet creates whole poems rather than the elements of poems : it is not his work to present " beautiful rhythms " but beautiful - that is , wholly coherent - poems ( sometimes made out of very ugly ...
... principle to keep in mind is that the poet creates whole poems rather than the elements of poems : it is not his work to present " beautiful rhythms " but beautiful - that is , wholly coherent - poems ( sometimes made out of very ugly ...
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... principle of imbalance . And to emphasize the distinction be- tween octave and sestet , the poet tries to make the rhyme - words of the final six lines as different as possible from those of the preceding eight . Hopkins expresses the ...
... principle of imbalance . And to emphasize the distinction be- tween octave and sestet , the poet tries to make the rhyme - words of the final six lines as different as possible from those of the preceding eight . Hopkins expresses the ...
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... principle , but it is amazing how many aspirant prose writers are innocent of it . In the same way , a writer of effective prose has mastered a general principle governing all events which occur in time , whether athletic contests ...
... principle , but it is amazing how many aspirant prose writers are innocent of it . In the same way , a writer of effective prose has mastered a general principle governing all events which occur in time , whether athletic contests ...
Contenido
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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