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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... century and could hear fine metrical verse of our time , they would rec- ognize its forms . Hearing Richard Wilbur's " A Finished Man , " Chaucer would appreciate that it , like his own " Wife of Bath's Tale , " was written in heroic ...
... century ) is written in medially divided accentual lines , but Layamon uses alliteration only irregularly and rhymes his half - lines frequently . We find a later varia- tion on this technique in Gamelyn ( anon . , mid - fourteenth century ) ...
... century ; the triumph of William of Normandy at the Battle of Hastings ( 1066 ) may be taken as a convenient point of reference . In its entry ( written by Tom McArthur and Whitney F. Bolton ) for " Middle Eng- lish , " The Oxford ...
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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 |