Meter in English: A Critical EngagementUniversity of Arkansas Press, 1997 M01 1 - 396 páginas Renowned poets and experts in metrics respond to Robert Wallace's pivotal essay which clarifies and simplifies methods of studying poetry. Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass has called Wallace's essay a paradigm shift in our understanding of English prosody. |
Contenido
| 3 | |
A Response | 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 |
Metrical Pleasures of Our Time | 151 |
Verse vs ProseProsody vs Meter | 249 |
Metrics and Pedagogical Economy | 265 |
Two Letters | 279 |
A Response to Robert Wallace | 283 |
Completing the Circle | 295 |
| 351 | |
Contributors | 357 |
Index of Proposal Discussions | 361 |
Strength in Diversity | 169 |
Meter and the Fortunes of the Numerical Imagination | 197 |
Staunch Meter Great Song | 221 |
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Términos y frases comunes
accentual meter accentual verse accentual-syllabic meter accentual-syllabic verse amphibrach anacrusis anapestic Anapests and dactyls basis for meter caesura century cretic critical dactylic dactylic meters discussion double-iamb e-s ending English meter English verse example exist in English extra-syllable ending feet foot in English four-stress free verse Gioia green thought hear iamb iambic line iambic meter iambic norm iambic pentameter iambic verse Jeffers Jespersen lables language levels of stress linguistic Marianne Moore measure meter in English metrical stress metrists Moore's Nims non-iambic meters number of syllables pattern poem poem's poetic poets Professor Wallace proposition prose prosodists pyrrhic foot quantity reader regular rhyme rhythm rhythmic Robert Wallace Robinson Jeffers Saintsbury scansion seems sense sound speech stress spondee stanza strong stresses syllabic meter syllabic verse syllable count syllables T. S. Eliot tetrameter tion trochaic trochaic meter trochee unstressed syllables variation versification words writing