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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... stanzaic forms from thematic kinds . For example , a thematic kind like the aubade , a traditional morning song expressing the disinclination of lovers to separate , may embody itself in any kind of stanzaic structure . The same is true ...
... stanzaic forms from thematic kinds . For example , a thematic kind like the aubade , a traditional morning song expressing the disinclination of lovers to separate , may embody itself in any kind of stanzaic structure . The same is true ...
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... stanzaic forms have become fixed while others , which may resemble them very closely , have not , we should probably inquire less into any abstract aesthetic or mathematical theory than into the psychological données of human nature ...
... stanzaic forms have become fixed while others , which may resemble them very closely , have not , we should probably inquire less into any abstract aesthetic or mathematical theory than into the psychological données of human nature ...
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... stanzaic division in " Loot . " In matters of emphasis , then , we find it all too true that poetry should be at least as well written as prose . But the poet's formal problem , although in one way resembling the prose writer's , is ...
... stanzaic division in " Loot . " In matters of emphasis , then , we find it all too true that poetry should be at least as well written as prose . But the poet's formal problem , although in one way resembling the prose writer's , is ...
Contenido
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
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