Free verse : an essay on prosody
To make sense of "free verse" in theory or in practice, the study of prosody - the function of rhythm in poetry - must be revised and rethought. In Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody, Charles Hartman develops a theory of prosody that includes the most characteristic forms of twentieth-century poetry. Hartman examines nonmetrical verse, discusses the conventions that have emerged in the absence of meter, and shows how these conventions can work prosodically. By analyzing the work of Williams and Eliot - the prosodic masters among the early modernists - Hartman traces their influence on more contemporary poets. In his exploration of the means by which a poet controls the reader's temporal experience of poetry. Hartman presents an invaluable treatment of the concept of verse
Print Book, Englisch, 1996
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Il, 1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
199 pages ; 22 cm
9780810113169, 0810113163
34876010
Ch. 1. Some Definitions
Ch. 2. Accentualism, Isochrony, and the Musical Fallacy
Ch. 3. Free Verse and Prose
Ch. 4. Counterpoint
Ch. 5. The Discovery of Form
Ch. 6. The Discovery of Meter
Ch. 7. Free Verse and Poetry
Ch. 8. Some Contemporaries
App. Full Texts of Three Quoted Poems