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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... shape of general psychic experience . The shape which a poetic stanza cuts in time was once , before the widespread use of printing , apprehended by the ear alone . In later times , the reader's conception of stanzaic form has been both ...
... shape of general psychic experience . The shape which a poetic stanza cuts in time was once , before the widespread use of printing , apprehended by the ear alone . In later times , the reader's conception of stanzaic form has been both ...
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... shape , important as that shape is in con- tributing to its totality . One general principle with which we can begin is this : in a short multistanza poem , the poem generally tends toward a greater density the closer the number of ...
... shape , important as that shape is in con- tributing to its totality . One general principle with which we can begin is this : in a short multistanza poem , the poem generally tends toward a greater density the closer the number of ...
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... shape necessarily makes loud structural claims . The difference is that this poem puts its money where its mouth - or shape - is : it attains form rather than pseudo- form , and its reward is that it has become a permanent poem . It is ...
... shape necessarily makes loud structural claims . The difference is that this poem puts its money where its mouth - or shape - is : it attains form rather than pseudo- form , and its reward is that it has become a permanent poem . It is ...
Contenido
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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