The Music of Verse
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The Music of Verse

Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Music of Verse

Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

About this book

Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this studyhighlights the intricacy of the relation between the 'music' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. A Note on Terminology and Metrical Markings
  10. 1 Music and Metre
  11. 2 The English Hexameter in Theory and Practice
  12. 3 Native Traditions: Anglo- Saxon and Alliterative Verse
  13. 4 ‘The Accent of Feeling’: Towards Free Verse
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index