The Rise and Fall of Meter : : Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930 / / Meredith Martin.
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 nontradit...
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