Meter matters : verse cultures of the long nineteenth century / edited by Jason David Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Jason David, 1975-

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:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 both institutional and popular forms. The ten essays in Meter Matters showcase the range of metrical practice of poets from Wordsworth and Byron to Hopkins, Swinburne, and Tennyson; at the same time, the contributors bring into focus some of the metrical theorizing that shaped poetic thinking and resp

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821444016

0821444018

OCLC:

769188971