Hearing the Measures: Shakespearean and Other InflectionsUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2001 - 327 pagini An eminent scholar's guide to hearing poets' work When we listen to the words of a poet in the theater, or read them silently on the page, what is it that we hear? How do such crafty writers as Shakespeare or Donne, Wyatt or Yeats, Wordsworth or Lowell arrange their rhythms to make their poetry more expressive? A gathering of perceptive essays written over twenty-five years, this book by a distinguished scholar and poet helps us hear the measures poets use to conjure up strangeness, urgency, distance, surprise, the immediacy of speech, or the sounding of silence. |
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Trope Tense Measure | 1 |
Hendiadys and Hamlet | 3 |
Simple Present Verbs in English Poems | 44 |
Supposing a Measure for Measure for Measure | 73 |
Lines of the Poets | 97 |
Wyatts Decasyllabic Line | 99 |
Donnes Sculptured Stanzas | 123 |
Yeatss Expressive Style | 134 |
A ReviewArticle | 154 |
An Exchange with X J Kennedy | 203 |
Troubles of a Professional Meter Reader | 214 |
Oral or Literate Silent or Sounded | 233 |
Shakespeares Language on Stage | 250 |
Notes | 285 |
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Lowells Pentameter Line | 144 |
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