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The music of verse : metrical experiment in nineteenth-century poetry / Joseph Phelan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phelan, Joseph, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Versification.
- English language.
- English language--Rhythm.
- English poetry--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 225 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Summary:
- Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the "music" of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse.
- Contents:
- Music and metre
- 'Empty times' and 'double accents' : the English hexameter in theory and practice
- Native traditions : Anglo-Saxon and alliterative verse
- 'The accent of feeling' : towards free verse.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230247468
- 0230247466
- OCLC:
- 731914783
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