Moving words : forms of English poetry / Derek Attridge.

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.