Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody

✍ Scribed by Charles O. Hartman

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 prosody that includes the most characteristic forms of twentieth-century poetry.

✦ Table of Contents

Some Preliminary Issues..............1
The Problems of Organic Form..............27
Can Free Verse Be Classified?..............43
The First Cycle..............55
Those Monstrous Compositions..............81
From Romantic Afflatus to Victorian Contraption..............103
Bards and Prophets..............135
No Verse Is Really Free..............179