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Hearing the measures : Shakespearean and other inflections / George T. Wright.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, George T. (George Thaddeus)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 327 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Trope, Tense, Measure
- 1. Hendiadys and Hamlet 3
- 2. The Lyric Tense: Simple Present Verbs in English Poems 44
- 3. Supposing a Measure for Measure for Measure 73
- Lines of the Poets
- 4. Wyatt's Decasyllabic Line 99
- 5. Donne's Sculptured Stanzas 123
- 6. Yeats's Expressive Style 134
- 7. Lowell's Pentameter Line 144
- 8. Hearing the Measures: A Review-Article 154
- 9. Pulse and Breath: An Exchange with X. J. Kennedy 203
- 10. Troubles of a Professional Meter Reader 214
- Oral or Literate, Silent or Sounded
- 11. Blank Verse in the Jacobean Theater: Language That Vanishes, Language That Keeps 235
- 12. An Almost Oral Art: Shakespeare's Language on Stage and Page 250
- 13. The Silent Speech of Shakespeare's Sonnets 262.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-318) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0299171906
- 0299171949
- OCLC:
- 46670996
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