Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

Author: Philip Hobsbaum
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134881681
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from the iambus to the bob-wheel stanza, and forms from the Spenserian sonnet to modern 'rap', with clarity and comprehensiveness. It is an essential guide through the terminology which will be invaluable reading for undergraduates new to the subject.

Meter and Meaning

Author: Thomas Carper
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415311748
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Table of contents

Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

Author: Paul Fussell (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

Author: Maureen N. McLane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827901
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.

Poetic Rhythm

Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521413022
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
A straightforward and practical introduction to rhythm and meter in poetry in English.

Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: Random House Trade
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
"This book might be required reading for all students of poetry because it makes wonderfully clear the relationship of metrics to the formal achievement of meaning ... Fussell's command of his subject and his never-failing common sense will guarantee ... enrichment for anyone who takes the time to read this book."--Frank Lentricchia, Jr., PoetryDonated by Prabu Vasan.

Metre, Rhyme and Free Verse

Author: G. S. Fraser
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351631055
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Book Description
First published in 1970, this work outlines the principles of English prosody in a way that will enable the reader to recognise and scan any piece of English verse. It illustrates the close relationship between English speech patterns and verse patterns, and the primary importance of the phenomenon of stress. It also discusses the suitability of various kinds of metrical pattern for various kinds of poetic effect. This book will be of interest to those studying poetry and English literature.

The Rhythms of English Poetry

Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317869516
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description
Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He investigates these in order to explain the forms of English verse, and to show how rhythm and metre work as an essential part of the reader's experience of poetry.

A Poet's Craft

Author: Annie Finch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780472116935
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A major new guide to writing and understanding poetry

The Book of Forms

Author: Lewis Turco
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650225
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users.