The Rise and Fall of Meter
Title | The Rise and Fall of Meter PDF eBook |
Author | Meredith Martin |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0691155127 |
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline. The Rise and Fall of Meter tells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture.
The Rise and Fall of Meter
Title | The Rise and Fall of Meter PDF eBook |
Author | Meredith Martin |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2012-05-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 069115273X |
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline. The Rise and Fall of Meter tells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture.
The Rise and Fall of Meter
Title | The Rise and Fall of Meter PDF eBook |
Author | Meredith A. Martin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780542789540 |
By re-positioning meter within cultural studies, this project traces the circulation of metrical forms in order to historicize debates about poetic meter---not as an abstract, ahistorical descriptor but as a dynamic, interpretive cultural category.
Sound Waves
Title | Sound Waves PDF eBook |
Author | Trevor Chapel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
Mechanics' Magazine
Title | Mechanics' Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1844 |
Genre | Technology |
ISBN |
Treatise on Natural Philosophy
Title | Treatise on Natural Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | William Thomson Baron Kelvin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 914 |
Release | 1867 |
Genre | Calculators |
ISBN |
Code of Federal Regulations
Title | Code of Federal Regulations PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 922 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Administrative law |
ISBN |
Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.