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Across the nineteenth century, meter mattered-in more ways and to more people than we might well appreciate today. For the period's poets, metrical matters were a source of inspiration and often vehement debate. And the many readers, teachers, and pupils encountered meter and related topics in both institutional and popular forms. The ten essays in Meter Matters showcase the range of metrical practice of poets from Wordsworth and Byron to Hopkins, Swinburne, and Tennyson; at the same time, the contributors bring into focus some of the metrical theorizing that shaped poetic thinking and resp.;Introduction: a great multiplication of meters / Jason David Hall -- Meter and meaning / Isobel Armstrong -- Romantic measures: stressing the sound of sound / Susan J. Wolfson -- Byron's feet / Matthew Bevis -- "Break, break, break" into song / Yopie Prins -- Material patmore / Jason R. Rudy -- "For the inscape's sake": sounding the self in the meters of Gerard Manley Hopkins / Summer J. Star -- "But the law must be poetic": Swinburne, Omond, and the New Prosody / Yisrael Levin -- Popular ballads: rhythmic remediations in the nineteenth century / Michael Cohen -- Blank verse and the expansion o
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- Author
- Hall, Jason David;
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780821419687
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
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