| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 84 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Preface; CONTENTS; I. From Stress to Metre; II. Metrical Variation; III. Metrical Accent and Speech Stress; IV. The Actual Line of Spoken Verse; V. Other Elements of Variety; VI. Other Systems of Versification; A Short Glossary; A Select List for Reading |
| Summary |
Versification: A Short Introduction is written by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. The book discusses poetic meter, and may be the only source you need. McAuley devotes a short chapter to versification based on accent, syllable count, free verse and ""classical"" meters, but the book as a whole focuses on metrical verse and its constant reference back to stress in normal speech - it suceeds in showing meterical verse as a natural outgrowth of what we do naturally. This dispels quickly any sense of the esoteric - poetry is of and for people in general not for a spe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 84) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 10, 2017) |
| Subject |
English language -- Versification.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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English language -- Versification
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
65027065 |
| ISBN |
9781609172770 |
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1609172779 |
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