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The Structure of Verse:Modern Essays on Prosody (Revised Edition)
The Structure of VerseModern Essays on Prosody - Revised Edition Author:Harvey Gross The Structure of Verse was first published in 1966 and proved to be invaluable to general readers, students, teachers, and poets. They found authoritative essays on the history and theory of English metric, and discovered a most important guide to the technical possibilities inherent in the craft of poetry. — In this completely revised edition, P... more »rofessor Gross takes recent theoretical developments into account, and devotes a new section of his anthology to the work of five poets who have paid particular attention the problems of meter and rhythm--T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Theodore Roethke, Stanley Kunitz, and Donald Justice. The Structure of Verse also includes classic essays by Robert Graves, W. K. Wimsatt, and Monroe C. Beardsley, as well as John Hollander's brilliant "The Metrical Frame," Morris Halle and Samuel J. Keyser's seminal study in generative metrics, and Otto Jespersen's enormously influential "Notes on Metre," a primary source for modern linguistic theories of iambic meter.
With great clarity and flexibility, the three major positions on the structure of meter--traditionalist, linguistic, and musical--are explained and defended by leading theoreticians. And in his new introduction, "Toward a Phenomenology of Rhythm," Professor Gross offers some suggestions for formulating a theory of rhythm that might deal with both the subjective response of the "auditory imagination" and the objective status of metrical form.« less