A New History of English Metre

ISBN-13: 9781905981915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 304 str.

Martin J. Dufell; Martin J. Duffell

Opis

In the hundred years since the last major history of English metre was published, dramatic changes have occurred in both the way that poets versify in English and the way that scholars analyse verse. Free verse is now firmly established alongside regular metre, and linguistics, statistics, and cognitive theory have contributed to the analysis of both. This new study covers the history of English metre up to the twenty-first century and compares a variety of modern theories to explain it. The result is a concise and up-to-date guide to metre for all students and teachers of English poetry.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Linguistic Metrics 2. Comparative Metrics 3. English Historical Metrics: The Germanic Inheritance 4. Versifying in Bilingual England 5. Versifying in Late Medieval Scotland and England 6. The Emergence of English Metrical Canons 7. Consolidating and Refining the Canons 8. Completing the Spectrum of English Metres 9. The Advent of Free Verse 10. Versifying in English in the Twentieth Century

O autorze

Martin J. Duffell