The Passion of Meter
Title | The Passion of Meter PDF eBook |
Author | Brennan O'Donnell |
Publisher | Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780873385107 |
This is a study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. It provides a detailed treatment of what Wordsworth calls the innumerable minutiae that the art of the poet depends upon and of the broader vision to which these minutiae contribute.
Romantic Marks and Measures
Title | Romantic Marks and Measures PDF eBook |
Author | Julia S. Carlson |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0812247876 |
In Romantic Marks and Measures, Julia S. Carlson examines Wordsworth's poetry of "speech" and "nature" as a poetry of print, written and read in the midst of topographic and typographic experimentation and change.
Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form
Title | Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form PDF eBook |
Author | Ewan James Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2014-07-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107068444 |
This book argues that Coleridge's most important philosophical ideas were expressed not through theoretical argument but through his poems.
A Theory of Meter
Title | A Theory of Meter PDF eBook |
Author | Seymour Chatman |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2016-07-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3111352269 |
Meter in English
Title | Meter in English PDF eBook |
Author | David Baker |
Publisher | University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1610752643 |
Renowned poets and experts in metrics respond to Robert Wallace's pivotal essay which clarifies and simplifies methods of studying poetry. Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass has called Wallace's essay a paradigm shift in our understanding of English prosody.
The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Title | The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Kerkering |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 367 |
Release | 2003-12-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139440985 |
John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from meter and rhythm to alliteration and melody, provide these writers with evidence of a collective identity, whether national or racial. Through this shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities, Kerkering shows, are related elements of a single literary history. This is the story of how poetic effects helped to define national identities in Anglo-America as a step toward helping to define racial identities within the United States. This highly original study will command a wide audience of Americanists.
Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure
Title | Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Freer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2020-10-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192599038 |
Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an idea Wordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing. Wordsworth's poems discover and articulate a broad range of previously unfelt, unnoticed, and unconscious satisfactions. As well as providing new interpretations of major and under-studied writing by Wordsworth, this volume challenges a long tradition of psychoanalytic reading of romanticism, which uses trauma to explain the limits of literary memory. The book contests key psychoanalytic concepts in literary criticism including repression, sublimation, mourning, and pleasure. It asks what it would mean for us to be 'surprised by joy'.