all the fun's in how you say a thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification
Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms. Emphasizing both the coherence and the diversity of English metrical practice from Chaucer’s time to ours, Timothy Steele explains how poets harmonize the fixed units of meter with the variable flow of idiomatic speech. He examines...
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Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Ch. 1Metrical Norm and Rhythmical Modulation27Ch. 2Scansion and Metrical Variation52Ch. 3Additional Sources of Rhythmical Modulation, Including Enjambment, Caesural Pause, and Word Length94Ch. 4The Story of Elision, Including the Famous Rise, Troublesome Reign, and Tragical Fall of the Metrical Apostrophe116Ch. 5Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store: Meter and Grammar151Ch. 6Rhyme175Ch. 7Stanzas200Ch. 8Trochaic and Trisyllabic Meters221Ch. 9Alternative Modes of Versification in English246Notes281Glossary307Bibliography339Permissions and Copyrights349Index351
