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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... language ( or , alternatively , that stage in the ongoing history of English ) characterized by the blending of Old English with Norman French . This process began in the eleventh century ; the triumph of William of Normandy at the ...
... language in some sixty countries throughout the world and is sometimes said ( e . g . , Crystal , The Cam- bridge Encyclopedia of the English Language , 106–9 ) to have become a kind of world language . Modern English emerged circa 1450 ...
... Language , edited by Thomas A. Sebeok , 350–77 . Cambridge , Mass .: MIT Press , 1960 . James VI of Scotland . " Ane Schort Treatise Conteining some Reulis and Cautelis to Be Obseruit and Eschewit in Scottis Poesis . ” In Elizabethan ...
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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 |