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Free Verse : An Essay on Prosody / Charles O. Hartman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 708Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1981Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (212 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691610801
  • 9781400855384
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811.009
LOC classification:
  • PS309.F7 H37 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Some Definitions -- Chapter Two. Accentualism, Isochrony, and the Musical Fallacy -- Chapter Three. Free Verse and Prose -- Chapter Four. Counterpoint -- Chapter Five. The Discovery of Form -- Chapter Six. The Discovery of Meter -- Chapter Seven. Free Verse and Poetry -- Chapter Eight. Some Contemporaries -- Appendix. Full Texts of Three Quoted Poems -- Notes -- List of References -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics have faced in the past century, Charles Hartman takes up the challenge and develops a theory of prosody that includes the most characteristic forms of twentieth-century poetry.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Some Definitions -- Chapter Two. Accentualism, Isochrony, and the Musical Fallacy -- Chapter Three. Free Verse and Prose -- Chapter Four. Counterpoint -- Chapter Five. The Discovery of Form -- Chapter Six. The Discovery of Meter -- Chapter Seven. Free Verse and Poetry -- Chapter Eight. Some Contemporaries -- Appendix. Full Texts of Three Quoted Poems -- Notes -- List of References -- Index -- Backmatter

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To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics have faced in the past century, Charles Hartman takes up the challenge and develops a theory of prosody that includes the most characteristic forms of twentieth-century poetry.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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