Meter in English: A Critical EngagementRenowned 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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Only Gross and John Frederick Nims ( in Western Wind , 2nd ed . , 1983 ) discuss examples that reflect this obvious sense of the term . Gross ( 37-38 , 187 ) cites the opening eighteen lines of " The Waste Land " as four - beat ...
Only Gross and John Frederick Nims ( in Western Wind , 2nd ed . , 1983 ) discuss examples that reflect this obvious sense of the term . Gross ( 37-38 , 187 ) cites the opening eighteen lines of " The Waste Land " as four - beat ...
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Meter in English: a critical engagement
Crítica de los usuarios - Not Available - Book VerdictIn 1993, the poet Robert Wallace sent editor Baker and others an essay (included here) called "Meter in English," which seeks to clarify its subject through a series of propositions, the main being ... Leer comentario completo
Meter in English: a critical engagement
Crítica de los usuarios - Not Available - Book VerdictIn 1993, the poet Robert Wallace sent editor Baker and others an essay (included here) called "Meter in English," which seeks to clarify its subject through a series of propositions, the main being ... Leer comentario completo
Contenido
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| 43 | |
| 45 | |
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-syllabic agree alliteration alternative anacrusis anapestic appear basis beginning century clear confusion conventional count course critical dactylic definition describe discussion distinction double-iamb effect ending English meter essay example exist fact falling feet five foot four free verse give green hear iamb iambic instance kind language least less light linguistic mark means measure meter in English metrical natural never norm notes passage pattern pentameter perhaps poem poetic poetry poets possible practice Press principle problem proposition prose prosody pyrrhic quantity question reader reason refers regular rhyme rhythm rhythmic Robert rules scan scansion seems sense short simply sound speech spondee stanza stress strong substitutions suggests syllabic verse syllables term theory things thought tion traditional trochaic trochee true understand University unstressed syllables variation Wallace Wallace's 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...
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| Título | Meter in English: A Critical Engagement |
| Editor | David Baker |
| Colaboradores | David Baker, Robert Wallace |
| Editor | University of Arkansas Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 1557284229, 9781557284228 |
| Largo | 368 páginas |
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