The rise and fall of meter
Subtitle: poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930
By: Meredith Martin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780691152738; 9780691155074
Subjects: English poetry; Versification; Poetics; National characteristics, English, in literature; History and criticism; English language; History
Other titles: Poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the failure of meter; title: Modern instability; title: Metrical communities; title: Meter as culture; title: A note on historical prosody; title: The history of meter; title: A metrical history of England; title: A grammatical history of England; title: Grammatical instability; title: Metrical instability; title: The stigma of meter; title: Metrical irrelevance; title: The British empire of letters; title: Marking instress; title: Acute stress in "The wreck of the Deutschland"; title: Mistrusting the ear; title: The institution of meter; title: Metrical mastery; title: Inventing the "Britannic"; title: Dynamic reading; title: Mastery for the masses; title: The English ear; title: A prosodic entity; title: The discipline of meter; title: Patriotic pedagogy; title: Matthew Arnold's metrical intimacy; title: Henry Newbolt's cultural metrics; title: Private meters, public rhythms; title: The sound of the drum; title: The trauma of meter; title: Wartime, poetics; title: Sad death for a poet!; title: Therapeutic measures; title: Bent-double; title: The kindred points of heaven and home; title: The before- and afterlife of meter; title: Metrical modernism; title: Make it old : Robert Bridges and obsolescence; title: Alice Meynell's "English metres"; title: Toward a critical prosody.