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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... sometimes terminate at the ends of feet , sometimes within them . Both pentameters below consists of two dis- tinct syntactical elements . However , in the first line , the elements fall on ei- ther side of the boundary between the ...
... Sometimes all lines are aligned with the left - hand margin . Sometimes this arrangement is varied by indent- ing the closing couplet . Sometimes a poet will indent the even - numbered lines , in order to mark the alternating rhyme ...
... sometimes funny , sometimes serious , sometimes both have been written by Rudyard Kipling , Hilaire Belloc , Dorothy Parker , Louise Bogan , Janet Lewis , Ogden Nash , Countee Cullen , J. V. Cunning- ham , John Frederick Nims , Richard ...
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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 |