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McAuley James Phillip <1917-> |
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Titolo |
Versification [[electronic resource] ] : a short introduction / / by James McAuley |
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[East Lansing], : Michigan State University Press, 1966 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (93 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Versification |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface; CONTENTS; I. From Stress to Metre; II. Metrical Variation; III. Metrical Accent and Speech Stress; IV. The Actual Line of Spoken Verse; V. Other Elements of Variety; VI. Other Systems of Versification; A Short Glossary; A Select List for Reading |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Versification: A Short Introduction is written by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. The book discusses poetic meter, and may be the only source you need. McAuley devotes a short chapter to versification based on accent, syllable count, free verse and ""classical"" meters, but the book as a whole focuses on metrical verse and its constant reference back to stress in normal speech - it suceeds in showing meterical verse as a natural outgrowth of what we do naturally. This dispels quickly any sense of the esoteric - poetry is of and for people in general not for a spe |
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