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The rise and fall of meter [[electronic resource] ] : poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930 / / Meredith Martin



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Autore: Martin Meredith <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The rise and fall of meter [[electronic resource] ] : poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930 / / Meredith Martin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
Disciplina: 821/.809
Soggetto topico: English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism
English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism
English language - Versification
National characteristics, English, in literature
Poetics - History - 19th century
Poetics - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: Arthur Brock
Craiglockhart War Hospital
English education
English language
English literature
English meter
English poet
English poetry
English prosody
English soldiers
Ezra Pound
George Saintsbury
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Henry Newbold
Matthew Arnold
Milton's Prosody
Robert Bridges
Society for Pure English
Victorian England
Victorian meter
Victorian tradition
W. H. R. Rivers
grammatical history
literary movements
metrical communities
metrical culture
metrical history
metrical mastery
metrical poetry
national identity
patriotic pedagogy
poems
poetic form
poetic meter
poetry writing
poetry
poets
prose
prosody
state-funded education
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Why 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930
Titolo autorizzato: The rise and fall of meter  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786613457066
1-283-45706-7
1-4008-4219-0
0-691-15273-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465213903321
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