All the Fun's in how You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and VersificationOhio University Press, 1999 - 366 páginas Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms. Emphasizing both the coherence and the diversity of English metrical practice from Chaucer's time to ours, Timothy Steele explains how poets harmonize the fixed units of meter with the variable flow of idiomatic speech, and examines the ways in which poets have used meter, rhyme, and stanza to communicate and enhance meaning. Steele illuminates as well many practical, theoretical, and historical issues in English prosody, without ever losing sight of the fundamental pleasures, beauties, and insights that fine poems offer us. |
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... begin with , but also because it stands between two com- paratively heavy syllables . When it next turns up , however , it serves as a met- rical accent : it stands between a light conjunction and the light first syllable of ...
... begin differently , but there is a match between the vowels and all sounds that may follow . Full rhyme most frequently involves syllables in which a vowel is flanked by con- sonants , as in thing / sing in Coleridge's epigram and as in ...
... begin to appear only in the later sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries . ( Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabetical of 1604 is often cited as the first published English dictionary . ) Hence any interpretation of Chaucer's metric ...
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All the Fun's in how You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification Timothy Steele Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
All the Fun's in how You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification Timothy Steele Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |