| Description |
272 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Literature and ideas series ; 4
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A Fawcett premier book ; M304
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Fawcett premier book ; M304.
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Literature and ideas series ; 4.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Prosody and literary study -- pt. 1. Prosody: purview, history, and definition: Euphony, rhythm, and metre / Rene Wellek and Austin Warren -- Rhythm and metre / I.A. Richards -- Harp, anvil, oar / Robert Graves -- "The mothers" / George Saintsbury -- A letter to a musician on English prosody / Robert Bridges -- Treatise on metre / Ezra Pound -- pt. 2. Theories of meter: Notes on metre / Otto Jespersen -- Audible reading of poetry / Yvor Winters -- Concept of meter: an exercise in abstraction / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley -- Rhythm of recurrence / Northrop Frye -- Structural linguistics and English prosody / Ronald Sutherland -- pt. 3. Three essays in criticism: Meter and meaning / Arnold Stein -- T.S. Eliot and the music of poetry / Harvey Gross -- What do I like? / Theodore Roethke -- Appendixes: Foot and the verse / R.M. Alden. |
| Summary |
Essays by Eliot, Pound, Roethke, Graves, Fussell, and others on prosody, meter, rhythm--the art of making verses. |
| Subject |
Versification.
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Versification. |
| ISBN |
091294658X |
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