TY - BOOK AU - Martin,Meredith TI - The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930 SN - 9780691155128 AV - PR595.V4 M37 2017 U1 - 821.809 23 PY - 2012///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - English language KW - Versification KW - English poetry KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - National characteristics, English, in literature KW - Poetics KW - History KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - Arthur Brock KW - Craiglockhart War Hospital KW - English education KW - English literature KW - English meter KW - English poet KW - English prosody KW - English soldiers KW - Ezra Pound KW - George Saintsbury KW - Gerard Manley Hopkins KW - Henry Newbold KW - Matthew Arnold KW - Milton's Prosody KW - Robert Bridges KW - Society for Pure English KW - Victorian England KW - Victorian meter KW - Victorian tradition KW - W. H. R. Rivers KW - grammatical history KW - literary movements KW - metrical communities KW - metrical culture KW - metrical history KW - metrical mastery KW - metrical poetry KW - national identity KW - patriotic pedagogy KW - poems KW - poetic form KW - poetic meter KW - poetry writing KW - poetry KW - poets KW - prose KW - prosody KW - state-funded education N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Failure of Meter --; Chapter 1: The History of Meter --; Chapter 2: The Stigma of Meter --; Chapter 3: The Institution of Meter --; Chapter 4: The Discipline of Meter --; Chapter 5: The Trauma of Meter --; Chapter 6: The Before- and Afterlife of Meter --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400842193?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400842193 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400842193.jpg ER -