The Music of Verse [electronic resource] : Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry /
Phelan, Joseph.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Poetry.
Literature-Philosophy.
America-Literatures.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.