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

The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930

Meredith Martin

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nonfiction literary poetry challenging informative medium-paced

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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, bu...

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