All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing An Explanation of Meter and Versification

Name: All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing An Explanation of Meter and Versification
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ISBN: 9780821412602

ISBN-10: 0821412604

ISBN-13: 9780821412602

Edition: 1999

Authors: Timothy Steele

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Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun’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. Emphasizing both the coherence and the diversity of English metrical practice from Chaucer’s time to ours, Timothy Steele explains how poets harmonize the fixed units of meter with the variable flow of idiomatic speech. He examines the ways in which poets have used meter, rhyme, and stanza to communicate and enhance meaning. Steele illuminates as well many practical, theoretical, and historical issues in English prosody, without…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 4/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Metrical Norm and Rhythmical Modulation



Scansion and Metrical Variation



Additional Sources of Rhythmical Modulation, Including Enjambment, Caesural Pause, and Word Length



The Story of Elision, Including the Famous Rise, Troublesome Reign, and Tragical Fall of the Metrical Apostrophe



Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store: Meter and Grammar



Rhyme



Stanzas



Trochaic and Trisyllabic Meters



Alternative Modes of Versification in English


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Permissions and Copyrights


Index