All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification - Couverture rigide

Steele, Timothy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0821412590 ISBN 13 : 9780821412596

Editeur : Ohio University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms. Emphasizing both the coherence and the diversity of English metrical practice from Chaucer's time to ours, Timothy Steele explains how poets harmonize the fixed units of meter with the variable flow of idiomatic speech, and examines the ways in which poets have used meter, rhyme, and stanza to communicate and enhance meaning. Steele illuminates as well many practical, theoretical, and historical issues in English prosody, without ever losing sight of the fundamental pleasures, beauties, and insights that fine poems offer us.

Written lucidly, with a generous selection of helpful scansions and explanations of the metrical effects of the great poets of the English language, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is not only a valuable handbook on technique; it is also a wide-ranging study of English verse and a mine of entertaining information for anyone wishing more fully to write, enjoy, understand, or teach poetry.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Timothy Steele is Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter. His collections of poetry include The Color Wheel and Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0821412590
• ISBN 13: 9780821412596
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 377
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible