>To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosodyβthe function of rhythm in poetryβmust be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics have faced in the past century, Charles Hartman takes up the challenge and develops a theory of prosody
Free verse : An essay on prosody
β Scribed by Hartman, C.O; Hartmann, Charles O
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 213
- Category
- Library
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To make sense of free verse"" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics have faced in the past century, Charles Hartman takes up the challenge and develops a theory of prosod
<p><i>Verse</i> is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school.</p> <ul><li>DiscussesΒ iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as poetic meter
There is to date no comprehensive account of the rhythms of free verse. The main purpose of<em>A Prosody of Free Verse: explorations in rhythm</em>is to fill that gap and begin to provide a systematic approach to describing and analyzing free verse rhythms. Most studies have declared the attempt to
1. Introduction -- 2. Voice : human embodied cognition and embodied knowing -- 3. Breaking the pentameter -- 4. What is distinctive about free verse? -- 5. The basis of prosody in music -- 6. The basis of prosody in dance -- 7. A new prosody 1 : elements of the system -- 8. A new prosody 2 : how the