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Author: Edwin Guest Publisher: ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 760
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Dr. Guest's great work has long been the convenience storehouse whence many writers upon prosody have drawn their illustrations. This second edition has been carefully revised & corrected by the famous Chaucer scholar & an index has been added.
Author: Morris W. Croll Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400879205 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 468
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These essays are, according to Marjorie Nicholson, “the most illuminating articles we have on the important subject of prose style. They were pioneer articles which have remained standard.” Originally published in 1966. 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: Meredith Martin Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400842190 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 287
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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. The Rise and Fall of Meter tells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture.
Author: Edwin Guest
Author: Edwin Guest
Author: Edwin Guest
Author: Edwin Guest
Author: Morris W. Croll
Author: Henry Allon
Author: Meredith Martin
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Author: George Saintsbury
Author: Daniel Tyler