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Modernism's metronome : meter and twentieth-century poetics / Ben Glaser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glaser, Ben, author.
- Series:
- Hopkins studies in modernism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- United States.
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Great Britain.
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Poetics--History--20th century.
- Poetics.
- History.
- English language--Versification.
- English language.
- Rhythm in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Modernist Scansion: Robert Frost's Distorted Vernacular p. 30
- Frost's Theory of Meter and Practice of Scansion p. 33
- The "Hen Dekker Syllables" of "For Once, Then, Something" p. 44
- The Late Meter of "Directive" p. 53
- 2 Penty Ladies: T. S. Eliot, Satire, and the Gender of Modern Meter p. 56
- "Too Penty" Ladies p. 60
- Meter after Satire: The Waste Land p. 67
- Formal Sensibility for a Post-metrical Culture p. 75
- 3 "No Feet to Walk On": Pound's Late Victorian Prosody p. 81
- Late Victorian Pound p. 82
- "Anima" Meter: Bare-Foot and Stub-Toed p. 87
- The Riposte against Meter p. 92
- Pan, Syrinx, and Sappho: Pound's Editorial Control and H.D.'s HERmione p. 98
- 4 Metristes: Formal Feeling in Sara Teasdale, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Louise Bogan p. 107
- Sara Teasdale and the Labor of the Line p. 111
- Georgia Douglas Johnson's Metrical Bars p. 114
- Louise Bogan's Precise Pentagon p. 123
- 5 The Prosody of Passing: Jean Toomer and James Weldon Johnson p. 135
- Spirituals after the Victrola p. 138
- Cane as Collection p. 144
- Kabnis's Unheard Blues p. 152
- James Weldon Johnson: Re-scanning the Anglo-American Tradition p. 156
- Rhythmic Exegesis p. 167
- 6 Folk Iambics: Sterling Brown's Outline for the Study of the Poetry of American Negroes p. 181
- "Black" Rhythm's Double Audience p. 182
- Brown's Outline and Johnson's Book of American Negro Poetry p. 188
- "When de Saints Co Ma'ching Home" p. 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781421439532
- 1421439530
- Publisher Number:
- 40030205220
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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