Meter and Meaning: Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry (平装) 0415311756

This is the only guide to meter you will ever need and a must-read for anyone who wants to study, write or better appreciate poetic texts. This is splendidly useful and elegantly thought-out introduction to the understanding of the rhythmic fabric of poetry in English, and of the way in which rhythmic patterns and effects become part of the very substance of what poetry says, rather than some kind of accompaniment to it. The authors have deployed sophisticated linguistic knowledge, literary sensitivity and poetic insight in the most clear and simple language possible, and their sample analyses are immediately comprehensible and enlightening. Anyone interested in poetry should acquire the knowledge so beautifully imparted here. –John Hollander, Yale University Thomas Carper is a published poet who has taught poetry for many years. His new book, Distant Blue, is the recipient of the 2003 Richard Wilbur award. Derek Attridge is a distinguished scholar who has published a number of books on prosody. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Basic Rhythms. Further Practice. 2. Beats: B , b, [B]. Further Practice. 3. Offbeats: o , O , -o- , [o] , ?. Further Practice. 4. Scan-ning Poems. Further Practice. 5. Rhythmic Figures. 6. Names and Labels. 7. Meter and Meaning. 8. Identifying Meters and Stanza-forms. Where to Go from Here. Scansion Symbols. Afterword. Index

出版社	Routledge
作者	Thomas Carper