Richard Hillyer

Auden's Syllabic Verse

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of W. H. Auden's many syllabics, revealing them as highly various in both form and content. It also discusses his achievement in relation to the work of two pioneers in the writing of English syllabic verse: Robert Bridges and Marianne Moore.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781498591461
• ISBN-10: 1498591469
• Artikelnr.: 57836678

Autorenporträt

Richard Hillyer is professor of English at the University of South Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. "Ur-Syllabic Verse" Part I : Auden's Syllabic Forerunners Chapter
1. "Any Definite Uniform Propriety": Bridges and Moore as Metrical
Innovators Chapter 2. "Pompous Old Gentleman" and "Marxist Enfant
Terrible": Bridges and Auden as Strange Bedfellows Part II: Auden's
Syllabic Forms Chapter 3. "Games and Grammar and Metres": Alcaic Quatrains
Chapter 4. "New Problems of Form": Sapphic Quatrains Chapter 5. "A Sober
Perspective": Asclepiadean Quatrains Chapter 6. "Unmythical Mortals":
Quasi-Elegiac Couplets Chapter 7. "As Structures Go": Varieties of Rhyme
Chapter 8. "Symmetries and Asymmetries": Adaptations of Haiku and Tanka
Chapter 9. "Making a . . . Line": Related Stanzas and Couplets Chapter 10.
"Contradictory Dialect": Alliterative Lines Chapter 11. "Some Prosodic
Discipline": Miscellaneous Lines, Couplets, and Stanzas Works Cited Index
About the Author