A Prosody Of Free Verse

Author : Charles O. Hartman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400855384

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Free Verse by Charles O. Hartman Pdf

To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics have faced in the past century, Charles Hartman takes up the challenge and develops a theory of prosody that includes the most characteristic forms of twentieth-century poetry. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Richard Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317615057

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A Prosody of Free Verse by Richard Andrews Pdf

There is to date no comprehensive account of the rhythms of free verse. The main purpose of A Prosody of Free Verse: explorations in rhythm is to fill that gap and begin to provide a systematic approach to describing and analyzing free verse rhythms. Most studies have declared the attempt to write such a prosody as impossible: they prefer to see free verse as an aberrant version of regular metrical verse. They also believe that behind free verse is the ‘ghost of metre’. Running against that current, A Prosody of Free Verse bases its new system on additive rhythms that do not fit conventional time signatures. Inspiration is taken from jazz, contemporary music and dance, not only in their systems of notation but in performance. The book argues that twentieth and twenty-first century rhythms in poetry as based on the line rather than the metrical foot as the unit of rhythm , and that larger rhythmic structures fall into verse paragraphs rather than stanzas.

Author : Richard Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317615040

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A Prosody of Free Verse by Richard Andrews Pdf

There is to date no comprehensive account of the rhythms of free verse. The main purpose of A Prosody of Free Verse: explorations in rhythm is to fill that gap and begin to provide a systematic approach to describing and analyzing free verse rhythms. Most studies have declared the attempt to write such a prosody as impossible: they prefer to see free verse as an aberrant version of regular metrical verse. They also believe that behind free verse is the ‘ghost of metre’. Running against that current, A Prosody of Free Verse bases its new system on additive rhythms that do not fit conventional time signatures. Inspiration is taken from jazz, contemporary music and dance, not only in their systems of notation but in performance. The book argues that twentieth and twenty-first century rhythms in poetry as based on the line rather than the metrical foot as the unit of rhythm , and that larger rhythmic structures fall into verse paragraphs rather than stanzas.

Author : Annie Finch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0472087096

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The Ghost of Meter by Annie Finch Pdf

A groundbreaking study of the connections among meter, the poetic unconscious, and wider literary and cultural forces

Author : G. S. Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351631044

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Metre, Rhyme and Free Verse by G. S. Fraser Pdf

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.

Author : Charles O. Hartman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118894125

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Verse by Charles O. Hartman Pdf

Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for anystudent learning to read or write poetry, from secondary tograduate school. Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metricalverse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advancedtopics such as poetic meter, linguistic approaches to verse, andthe computer scansion of metrical poetry Written in a clear, engaging style by a poet and teacher withmore than 30 years of experience teaching the subject Supplemented by a user-friendly website with student exercisesand additional resources

Author : Henry Tompkins Kirby-Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472085654

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The Origins of Free Verse by Henry Tompkins Kirby-Smith Pdf

Argues that free verse has deep historical roots, and traces them, from Milton to contemporary poetry

Author : Robert Beum,Karl Shapiro
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780486122670

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The Prosody Handbook by Robert Beum,Karl Shapiro Pdf

This guide to versification is immensely useful for anyone interested in poetry or in general poetic structure. Concise and informal, it offers a systematic study of meter, tempo, rhyme, and other components of verse.

Author : Chris Beyers
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1557287023

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A History of Free Verse by Chris Beyers Pdf

This book examines the most salient and misunderstood aspect of twentieth-century poetry, free verse. Although the form is generally approached as if it were one indissoluble lump, it is actually a group of differing poetic genres proceeding from much different assumptions. Separate chapters on T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, H.D., and William Carlos Williams elucidate many of these assumptions and procedures, while other chapters address more general theoretical questions and trace the continuity of Modern poetics in contemporary poetry. Taking a historical and aesthetic approach, this study demonstrates that many of the forms considered to have been invented in the Modern period actually extend underappreciated traditions. Not only does this book examine the classical influence on Modern poetry, it also features discussions of the poetics of John Milton, Abraham Cowley, Matthew Arnold, and a host of lesser-known poets. Throughout it is an investigation of the prosodic issues that free verse foregrounds, particularly those focusing on the reader's part in interpreting poetic rhythm.

Author : Chris Beyers
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781557287021

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A History of Free Verse by Chris Beyers Pdf

This book examines the most salient and misunderstood aspect of twentieth-century poetry, free verse. Although the form is generally approached as if it were one indissoluble lump, it is actually a group of differing poetic genres proceeding from much different assumptions. Separate chapters on T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, H.D., and William Carlos Williams elucidate many of these assumptions and procedures, while other chapters address more general theoretical questions and trace the continuity of Modern poetics in contemporary poetry. Taking a historical and aesthetic approach, this study demonstrates that many of the forms considered to have been invented in the Modern period actually extend underappreciated traditions. Not only does this book examine the classical influence on Modern poetry, it also features discussions of the poetics of John Milton, Abraham Cowley, Matthew Arnold, and a host of lesser-known poets. Throughout it is an investigation of the prosodic issues that free verse foregrounds, particularly those focusing on the reader's part in interpreting poetic rhythm.

Author : Clive Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015029083634

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Reading the Rhythm by Clive Scott Pdf

We are still a long way from knowing how to read the rhythms of free verse, a poetry which has been largely neglected by metrical theory. Clive Scott's readable and scholarly study indicates the strategies of reading needed in order to do justice to free verse's rhythmic versatility. The core of the book is an analysis of key twentieth-century poets and poems, including Perse's Éloges; Cendrars's Prose du Transsibérien, Dix-neuf poemes élastiques, and Documentaires; Apollinaire's Calligrammes; Supervielle's Gravitations; and Reverdy's Sources du vent. He also looks at contemporary trends in the visual arts--Cubism, Futurism, Orphism, photography--to illuminate free verse's perceptual models and discusses the theme of travel and movement.

Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0803259786

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The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser Pdf

Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.

Author : Stephen Adams
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English language
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Poetic Designs by Stephen Adams Pdf

Author : Jon Silkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349253517

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The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Jon Silkin Pdf

In a wide-ranging and compelling account of the life of metrical and free verse in the twentieth century, poet and critic Jon Silkin deepens our understanding of the way poetry works on us. He begins from the premiss that two modes of verse, free and metrical, engage the creative energies of poetry now, creating a rich, fertile environment capable of yielding work valuable to poetry itself and to the society which has given it life. With a practitioner's empathy Silkin reads the poetry of Whitman, Hopkins, Eliot, Pound, Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, Bunting and eight British poets from the post-second World War period to illustrate how free and metrical verse create, separately or together, a poetic harmony. Additionally, he includes crucial statements on modern poetry from poets themselves, concluding with a fine memoir of Basil Bunting by Connie Pickard, published in book-form for the first time.

Author : Richard Andrews
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789811605666

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Polyrhythmicity in Language, Music and Society by Richard Andrews Pdf

This book addresses the complex time relations that occur in some types of jazz and classical music, as well as in the novel, plays and poetry. It discusses these multiple levels of rhythm from a social science as well as an arts and humanities perspective. Building on his ground-breaking work in Re-framing Literacy, A Prosody of Free Verse and Multimodality, Poetry and Poetics, the author explores the world of multiple- or poly-rhythms in music, literature and the social sciences. He reveals that multi-layered rhythms are uncommon and little researched. Nevertheless, they are important to the experience of art and social situations, not least because they link physicality to feeling and to decision-making (timing), as well as to aesthetic experience. Whereas most poly-rhythmic relations are felt unconsciously, this book reveals the complex patterning that underpins the structures of feeling and of experience.