04461nam 2200793Ia 450 991080939070332120200520144314.097866134570661-283-45706-71-4008-4219-00-691-15273-X10.1515/9781400842193(CKB)2560000000324424(EBL)859036(OCoLC)775873007(SSID)ssj0000640675(PQKBManifestationID)11383899(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640675(PQKBWorkID)10612403(PQKB)11738068(MiAaPQ)EBC859036(StDuBDS)EDZ0000938123(OCoLC)785782320(MdBmJHUP)muse37100(DE-B1597)448071(OCoLC)979968574(DE-B1597)9781400842193(Au-PeEL)EBL859036(CaPaEBR)ebr10533608(CaONFJC)MIL345706(EXLCZ)99256000000032442420110719d2012 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe rise and fall of meter poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930 /Meredith Martin1st ed.Princeton, NJ Princeton University Pressc20121 online resource (287 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-15507-0 0-691-15512-7 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Failure of Meter -- Chapter 1: The History of Meter -- Chapter 2: The Stigma of Meter -- Chapter 3: The Institution of Meter -- Chapter 4: The Discipline of Meter -- Chapter 5: The Trauma of Meter -- Chapter 6: The Before- and Afterlife of Meter -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexWhy do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline. The Rise and Fall of Meter tells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture.Poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930English poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish languageVersificationNational characteristics, English, in literaturePoeticsHistory19th centuryPoeticsHistory20th centuryEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.English poetryHistory and criticism.English languageVersification.National characteristics, English, in literature.PoeticsHistoryPoeticsHistory821/.809Martin Meredith1976-898363MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809390703321The rise and fall of meter4008075UNINA