LEADER 05804nam 2201273Ia 450 001 9910792397803321 005 20230801220907.0 010 $a9786613457066 010 $a1-283-45706-7 010 $a1-4008-4219-0 010 $a0-691-15273-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400842193 035 $a(CKB)2560000000324424 035 $a(EBL)859036 035 $a(OCoLC)775873007 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000640675 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11383899 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640675 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10612403 035 $a(PQKB)11738068 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC859036 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000938123 035 $a(OCoLC)785782320 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37100 035 $a(DE-B1597)448071 035 $a(OCoLC)979968574 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400842193 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL859036 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533608 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL345706 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000324424 100 $a20110719d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rise and fall of meter$b[electronic resource] $epoetry and English national culture, 1860-1930 /$fMeredith Martin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-15507-0 311 $a0-691-15512-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: The Failure of Meter -- $tChapter 1: The History of Meter -- $tChapter 2: The Stigma of Meter -- $tChapter 3: The Institution of Meter -- $tChapter 4: The Discipline of Meter -- $tChapter 5: The Trauma of Meter -- $tChapter 6: The Before- and Afterlife of Meter -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aWhy 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. 517 3 $aPoetry and English national culture, 1860-1930 606 $aEnglish poetry$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish language$xVersification 606 $aNational characteristics, English, in literature 606 $aPoetics$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPoetics$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aArthur Brock. 610 $aCraiglockhart War Hospital. 610 $aEnglish education. 610 $aEnglish language. 610 $aEnglish literature. 610 $aEnglish meter. 610 $aEnglish poet. 610 $aEnglish poetry. 610 $aEnglish prosody. 610 $aEnglish soldiers. 610 $aEzra Pound. 610 $aGeorge Saintsbury. 610 $aGerard Manley Hopkins. 610 $aHenry Newbold. 610 $aMatthew Arnold. 610 $aMilton's Prosody. 610 $aRobert Bridges. 610 $aSociety for Pure English. 610 $aVictorian England. 610 $aVictorian meter. 610 $aVictorian tradition. 610 $aW. H. R. Rivers. 610 $agrammatical history. 610 $aliterary movements. 610 $ametrical communities. 610 $ametrical culture. 610 $ametrical history. 610 $ametrical mastery. 610 $ametrical poetry. 610 $anational identity. 610 $apatriotic pedagogy. 610 $apoems. 610 $apoetic form. 610 $apoetic meter. 610 $apoetry writing. 610 $apoetry. 610 $apoets. 610 $aprose. 610 $aprosody. 610 $astate-funded education. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish language$xVersification. 615 0$aNational characteristics, English, in literature. 615 0$aPoetics$xHistory 615 0$aPoetics$xHistory 676 $a821/.809 700 $aMartin$b Meredith$f1976-$0898363 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792397803321 996 $aThe rise and fall of meter$93728935 997 $aUNINA