Mysterious music
Subtitle: rhythm and free verse
By: G. Burns Cooper.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: American poetry -- History and criticism; English language -- Versification; English language -- Rhythm; Free verse -- History and criticism; Musical meter and rhythm
Description: Though many recent poets insist on their poetry's "musical" qualities, few offer linguistically satisfying explanations of that "music." This book helps to fill that gap. It is a linguistically based study of rhythmic structures, and of the nature of rhythm, in the free verse of T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, and James Wright. It was written for accessibility to readers who, although not necessarily specialists in linguistic poetics, have some knowledge of language and poetry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.