Meter matters : verse cultures of the long nineteenth century /

Across the nineteenth century, meter mattered-in more ways and to more people than we might well appreciate today. For the period's poets, metrical matters were a source of inspiration and often vehement debate. And the many readers, teachers, and pupils encountered meter and related topics in...

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Other Authors: Hall, Jason David, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2011.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a great multiplication of meters / Jason David Hall
  • Meter and meaning / Isobel Armstrong
  • Romantic measures: stressing the sound of sound / Susan J. Wolfson
  • Byron's feet / Matthew Bevis
  • "Break, break, break" into song / Yopie Prins
  • Material patmore / Jason R. Rudy
  • "For the inscape's sake": sounding the self in the meters of Gerard Manley Hopkins / Summer J. Star
  • "But the law must be poetic": Swinburne, Omond, and the New Prosody / Yisrael Levin
  • Popular ballads: rhythmic remediations in the nineteenth century / Michael Cohen
  • Blank verse and the expansion of England: the meter of Tennyson's demeter / Cornelia Pearsall
  • Prosody wars / Meredith Martin.