Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Funâ s in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms.
Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Funâ s in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Timothy Steele's books include Toward the Winter Solstice, a collection of poems published by Ohio University Press. Among Steele's honors are a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University; a Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught literature and writing for twenty-five years.
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Preface to the Second Edition xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction Part One: Iambic Verse 1 Metrical Norm and Rhythmical Modulation 2 Scansion and Metrical Variation . Principles of Scansion . The Principal Iambic Meters . The Three Common Metrical Variations in Iambic Verse: The Trochaic Substitution in the First Foot, the Mid-line Trochaic Substitution, and the Feminine Ending . Less Common Trochaic Substitutions and Trochees That Maybe Are Not Trochees . Loose Iambic—Iambic Verse with Anapestic Substitutions . Other Variants: Divided Lines, Clipped Lines, Broken-Backed Lines, and Feminine Caesuras 3 Additional Sources of Rhythmical Modulation, Including Enjambment, Caesural Pause, and Word Length 4 The Story of Elision, Including the Famous Rise, Troublesome Reign, and Tragical Fall of the Metrical Apostrophe . The Practice and Conventions of Elision . Elision and Changing Views about Syllable Count . How Real Is Elision? And What Are We, Finally, to Think of It? 5 Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store:Meter and Grammar Part Two: Other Matters, Other Meters 6 Rhyme . The Background and History of Rhyme . The Two Common Types of Rhyme in English— Full and Partial—and Some of Their Varieties . The Use of Rhyme Seven Stanzas 8 Trochaic and Trisyllabic Meters 9 Alternative Modes of Versification in English . Accentual Verse . Syllabic Verse . Free Verse . Imitation-Classical Verse Notes Glossary Bibliography Permissions and Copyrights Index
Preface to the Second Edition xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction Part One: Iambic Verse 1 Metrical Norm and Rhythmical Modulation 2 Scansion and Metrical Variation . Principles of Scansion . The Principal Iambic Meters . The Three Common Metrical Variations in Iambic Verse: The Trochaic Substitution in the First Foot, the Mid-line Trochaic Substitution, and the Feminine Ending . Less Common Trochaic Substitutions and Trochees That Maybe Are Not Trochees . Loose Iambic—Iambic Verse with Anapestic Substitutions . Other Variants: Divided Lines, Clipped Lines, Broken-Backed Lines, and Feminine Caesuras 3 Additional Sources of Rhythmical Modulation, Including Enjambment, Caesural Pause, and Word Length 4 The Story of Elision, Including the Famous Rise, Troublesome Reign, and Tragical Fall of the Metrical Apostrophe . The Practice and Conventions of Elision . Elision and Changing Views about Syllable Count . How Real Is Elision? And What Are We, Finally, to Think of It? 5 Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store:Meter and Grammar Part Two: Other Matters, Other Meters 6 Rhyme . The Background and History of Rhyme . The Two Common Types of Rhyme in English— Full and Partial—and Some of Their Varieties . The Use of Rhyme Seven Stanzas 8 Trochaic and Trisyllabic Meters 9 Alternative Modes of Versification in English . Accentual Verse . Syllabic Verse . Free Verse . Imitation-Classical Verse Notes Glossary Bibliography Permissions and Copyrights Index
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