Meter and Meaning : An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780415311748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 156 str.

Thomas Carper; Derek Attridge

Opis

This text communicates a user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. Side-stepping the jargon that often runs through discussions of meter, the authors begin with the basic idea of poetry as a performance and suggest a fresh approach to reading poetic texts. As they guide us through exercises and ideas, they equip us with a new understanding of the relationship between meter and meaning in poems of all periods. Assuming no previous knowledge of meter, the authors ensure a smooth passage to an advanced knowledge of poetic rhythms.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.  Introduction.  1. Basic Rhythms.  Further Practice.  2. Beats: B , b, [B].  Further Practice.  3. Offbeats: o , O , -o- , [o] , ô.  Further Practice.  4. Scan-ning Poems.  Further Practice.  5. Rhythmic Figures.  6. Names and Labels.  7. Meter and Meaning.  8. Identifying Meters and Stanza-forms.  Where to Go from Here.  Scansion Symbols.  Afterword.  Index

O autorze

Thomas Carper is the author of three volumes of metrical poetry including Distant Blue, recipient of the 2003 Richard Wilbur Award, Fiddle Lane and From Nature. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Southern Maine. Derek Attridge is Professor of English at the University of York, UK. He is the author of the highly influential texts on beat prosody, The Rhythms of English Poetry and Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction and has also published books on literary theory, sixteenth-century poetry and twentieth-century fiction.