Moving words : forms of English poetry /
Attridge, Derek
Moving words : forms of English poetry / Derek Attridge. - 1st ed - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: Against Abstraction""; ""PART I. FORMAL QUESTIONS""; ""1. A Return to Form?""; ""2. Meaning in Movement: Phrasing and Repetition""; ""3. Rhyme in English and French: The Problem of the Dramatic Couplet""; ""4. Sound and Sense in Lyric Poetry""; ""PART II. RHYTHM AND METRE""; ""5. Rhythm in English Poetry: Beat Prosody""; ""6. Rhythm and Interpretation: The Iambic Pentameter""; ""7. An Enduring Form: The English Dolnik""; ""8. Lexical Inventiveness and Metrical Patterns: Beats and Keats""""9. Poetry Unbound? Observations on Free Verse""""Appendix: Scansion Symbols""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" This text provides extensive evidence of the importance of close attention to the moving and sounding of language in the poems we take pleasure in. It investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium to write verse that continues to move and delight.
9780191503306
English poetry--History and criticism.
English language--Rhythm
Sound in literature
POETRY--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English language--Rhythm
English poetry
Sound in literature
Gedichten
Moving words : forms of English poetry / Derek Attridge. - 1st ed - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: Against Abstraction""; ""PART I. FORMAL QUESTIONS""; ""1. A Return to Form?""; ""2. Meaning in Movement: Phrasing and Repetition""; ""3. Rhyme in English and French: The Problem of the Dramatic Couplet""; ""4. Sound and Sense in Lyric Poetry""; ""PART II. RHYTHM AND METRE""; ""5. Rhythm in English Poetry: Beat Prosody""; ""6. Rhythm and Interpretation: The Iambic Pentameter""; ""7. An Enduring Form: The English Dolnik""; ""8. Lexical Inventiveness and Metrical Patterns: Beats and Keats""""9. Poetry Unbound? Observations on Free Verse""""Appendix: Scansion Symbols""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" This text provides extensive evidence of the importance of close attention to the moving and sounding of language in the poems we take pleasure in. It investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium to write verse that continues to move and delight.
9780191503306
English poetry--History and criticism.
English language--Rhythm
Sound in literature
POETRY--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English language--Rhythm
English poetry
Sound in literature
Gedichten