Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody

✍ Scribed by Charles O. Hartman

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 708
• Edition: Course Book
• 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.

Originally published in 1981.

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One. Some Definitions
Chapter Two. Accentualism, Isochrony, and the Musical Fallacy
Chapter Three. Free Verse and Prose
Chapter Four. Counterpoint
Chapter Five. The Discovery of Form
Chapter Six. The Discovery of Meter
Chapter Seven. Free Verse and Poetry
Chapter Eight. Some Contemporaries
Appendix. Full Texts of Three Quoted Poems
Notes
List of References
Index