| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (287 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Failure of Meter; Modern Instability; Metrical Communities; Meter as Culture; A Note on Historical Prosody; Chapter 1 The History of Meter; A Metrical History of England; A Grammatical History of England; Grammatical Instability; Metrical Instability; Chapter 2 The Stigma of Meter; Metrical Irrelevance; The British Empire of Letters; Marking Instress; Acute Stress in "The Wreck of the Deutschland"; Mistrusting the Ear; Chapter 3 The Institution of Meter; Metrical Mastery; Inventing the Britannic; Dynamic Reading. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
English language -- Versification.
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English language -- Versification. |
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National characteristics, English, in literature.
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National characteristics, English, in literature. |
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Poetics -- History -- 19th century.
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Poetics. |
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History. |
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Poetics -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780691155074 (OCoLC)742234210 |
| ISBN |
9781400842193 (electronic book) |
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1400842190 (electronic book) |
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069115273X |
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9780691152738 |
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0691155070 |
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9780691155074 |
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0691155127 |
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9780691155128 |
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1283457067 |
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9781283457064 |
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9780691152738 |
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9780691155074 |
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9780691155128 |
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