Meter in English: A Critical EngagementDavid Baker University of Arkansas Press, 1996 M01 1 - 368 páginas Renowned poets and experts in metrics respond to Robert Wallace's pivotal essay, Meter in English, which clarifies and simplifies methods of studying poetry. |
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Página xvi
... present below the right little finger . Habit and ease may persuade or force some to employ this longer mark ; still , a ready problem arises for its use to mark accents , since its traditional application is to divide lines xvi DAVID ...
... present below the right little finger . Habit and ease may persuade or force some to employ this longer mark ; still , a ready problem arises for its use to mark accents , since its traditional application is to divide lines xvi DAVID ...
Página xviii
... problems of literary study to our students instead of presuming to teach them the answers only , as if " answers " are universal and com- plete . Meter is not a problem to be " solved " at all , but a set of for- mal applications to be ...
... problems of literary study to our students instead of presuming to teach them the answers only , as if " answers " are universal and com- plete . Meter is not a problem to be " solved " at all , but a set of for- mal applications to be ...
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... problem is that the strong accents of English tend to override , for all but the most classically trained readers , the pattern of vowel - lengths . As X. J. Kennedy remarks ( An Introduction to Poetry , 7th ed . , 1990 , 166 ) ...
... problem is that the strong accents of English tend to override , for all but the most classically trained readers , the pattern of vowel - lengths . As X. J. Kennedy remarks ( An Introduction to Poetry , 7th ed . , 1990 , 166 ) ...
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... problems with accentual meter in this sense . It may be plausible enough , given the metrical norm TUM TUM TUM TUM , to accept TUM TUM te TUM TUM ( " Dull roots with spring rain " ) as a rhythmic variation . But it seems exceed- ingly ...
... problems with accentual meter in this sense . It may be plausible enough , given the metrical norm TUM TUM TUM TUM , to accept TUM TUM te TUM TUM ( " Dull roots with spring rain " ) as a rhythmic variation . But it seems exceed- ingly ...
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... problem is that what we may count as a stress seems extremely subjective . Nothing in theory prevents that determination from being arbitrary . The very existence in speech of any number of levels of stress makes it impossible to tell ...
... problem is that what we may count as a stress seems extremely subjective . Nothing in theory prevents that determination from being arbitrary . The very existence in speech of any number of levels of stress makes it impossible to tell ...
Contenido
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A DEFENSE OF THE NONIAMBIC METERS | 59 |
METERMAKING ARGUMENTS | 75 |
A RESPONSE TO ROBERT WALLACE | 97 |
SOME RESPONSES TO ROBERT WALLACE | 109 |
A NEW FOOTING | 125 |
VERSE VS PROSEPROSODY VS METER | 249 |
METRICS AND PEDAGOGICAL ECONOMY | 265 |
TWO LETTERS | 279 |
A RESPONSE TO ROBERT WALLACE | 283 |
PART THREE | 293 |
COMPLETING THE CIRCLE | 295 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 351 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 357 |
METRICAL PLEASURES OF OUR TIME | 151 |
STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY | 169 |
METER AND THE FORTUNES OF THE NUMERICAL IMAGINATION | 197 |
STAUNCH METER GREAT SONG | 221 |
INDEX OF PROPOSAL DISCUSSIONS | 361 |
INDEX OF AUTHORS | 363 |
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Términos y frases comunes
accentual meter accentual verse accentual-syllabic meter accentual-syllabic verse amphibrach anacrusis anapestic Anapests and dactyls basis for meter caesura century conventional critical dactylic dactylic meters discussion double-iamb e-s ending English meter English verse example exist in English extra-syllable ending foot in English four-stress free verse Gioia Greek green thought hear iamb iambic line iambic meter iambic norm iambic pentameter iambic verse Jeffers Jespersen lables language levels of stress linguistic Marianne Moore measure meter in English metrical stress metrists Moore's Nims non-iambic meters number of syllables pattern poem poem's poetic poets Professor Wallace proposition prose prosodists pyrrhic foot quantity reader regular rhyme rhythm rhythmic Robert Wallace Robinson Jeffers Saintsbury scansion seems sense sound speech stress spondee stanza stressed and unstressed strong stresses syllabic meter syllabic verse syllable count syllables tetrameter Timothy Steele tion traditional trochaic trochaic meter trochee unstressed syllables variation versification words writing
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Página v - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 311 - Leave me, O love which reachest but to dust, And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things. Grow rich in that which never taketh rust: Whatever fades but fading pleasure brings. Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be; Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light That doth both shine and give us sight to see.
Página 49 - I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.
Página 127 - Jesus me, the last delinquent, Deems the profanest. Man disavows, and Deity disowns me ; Hell might afford my miseries a shelter ; Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all Bolted against me.
Página 276 - DISCIPLINE THROW away Thy rod, Throw away Thy wrath : 0 my God, Take the gentle path. For my heart's desire Unto Thine is bent : 1 aspire To a full consent. Not a word or look I affect to own, But by book, And Thy book alone.
Página 333 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Página 20 - Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded on a new principle : namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables.
Página 158 - I employ sprung rhythm at all? because it is the nearest to the rhythm of prose, that is the native and natural rhythm of speech...