Poetic Rhythm
An Introduction
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- Author: Derek Attridge, University of York
- Date Published: January 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521423694
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This is the first introduction to rhythm and meter that begins where students are: as speakers of English familiar with the rhythms of the spoken word, nursery rhymes, song and rap. Poetic Rhythm builds on this knowledge and experience, moving from basic questions about the rhythms of spoken English to the elaborate achievements of past and present poets. Terminology is straightforward and there are frequent practical exercises. Poetic Rhythm will help readers of English poetry experience and enjoy its power, subtlety and diversity, and will serve as an invaluable tool for those who write or discuss poetry in English.
Read more- Fills huge gap in market for straightforward, basic and useful introduction to poetic rhythm and metre
- Likely to become essential student reading; and has additional market in poets, writers and general readers
- Written by Derek Attridge, leading expert in the field, whose Longman book The Rhythms of Poetry (1982) has sold widely as a textbook
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'At long, long last here is the text that may well revolutionise our perception and analysis of poetry and shift attention from image-play and patterning to the rightful primacy of speech rhythms and metricality … Derek Attridge propounds invaluable theoretical concepts as well as applied techniques … Bliss!' Richard Taylor, Modern Language Review
See more reviews' … an exceptional introduction to the rhythmic aspects of poetry which manages to be a the same time insightful and perfectly readable.' Buchbesprechungen
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- Date Published: January 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521423694
- length: 296 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 151 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- contains: 47 exercises
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
On using this book
1. The rhythms of poetry: a first approach
2. The rhythms of spoken English
3. Dancing language
4. Stress verse and strong-stress verse: counting the beats
5. Syllable-stress verse: versatility and variation
6. Major types of syllable-stress verse
7. Free verse: metrical and rhythmic analysis
8. Phrasal movement
Appendix 1. Scansion
Appendix 2. Glossary
Appendix 3. Sources of examples
Appendix 4. Suggested responses to the exercises.
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