Auden's syllabic verse. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Hillyer.
• Authors: Hillyer, Richard
• Contents: Preface. “Ur-Syllabic Verse” ; ; Part I : Auden’s Syllabic Forerunners ; ; Chapter 1. “Any Definite Uniform Propriety”: Bridges and Moore as Metrical Innovators ; ; Chapter 2. “Pompous Old Gentleman” and “Marxist Enfant Terrible”: Bridges and Auden as Strange Bedfellows ; ; Part II: Auden’s Syllabic Forms ; ; Chapter 3. “Games and Grammar and Metres”: Alcaic Quatrains ; ; Chapter 4. “New Problems of Form”: Sapphic Quatrains ; ; Chapter 5. “A Sober Perspective”: Asclepiadean Quatrains ; ; Chapter 6. “Unmythical Mortals”: Quasi-Elegiac Couplets ; ; Chapter 7. “As Structures Go”: Varieties of Rhyme ; ; Chapter 8. “Symmetries and Asymmetries”: Adaptations of Haiku and Tanka ; ; Chapter 9. “Making a . . . Line”: Related Stanzas and Couplets ; ; Chapter 10. “Contradictory Dialect”: Alliterative Lines ; ; Chapter 11. “Some Prosodic Discipline”: Miscellaneous Lines, Couplets, and Stanzas ; ; Works Cited ; ; Index ; ; About the Author
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages)
• Subjects: 811/.52; English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English language -- Versification; Criticism, Textual
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498591478; 1498591477
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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