The Rise and Fall of Meter
188 chapter 6 quantitative verse traditions in English. In his late-career poem, “Poor Poll,” Bridges reveals his disappointment ...
the before- and afterlife of meter 189 “must never be treated as a field of mental exercise remote from ordinary life”; it certa ...
190 chapter 6 The well-trained bird is able to communicate that he is hungry and that he wants to share with the free garden bir ...
the before- and afterlife of meter 191 bird” in his Sonnet 21); her inability to recognize either the metrical or mental “cage” ...
192 chapter 6 work, but here Bridges may mean that these memorized tags are, for better or worse, ‘for all time’ and that, despi ...
the before- and afterlife of meter 193 the bird figure is reduced to a physical object blindly groping for escape from its artif ...
194 chapter 6 La possa delle gambe posta in tregue (“The position of your legs after a moment of repose”) is from Dante (also a ...
the before- and afterlife of meter 195 hope for pronunciation reform; his own private shorthand, which “should be” recognized bu ...
196 chapter 6 ghastly traffic,” and though he seems to assert that he would protect us from ruin, we know that his attitude towa ...
the before- and afterlife of meter 197 stand that line 79 is a quantitative scazon in English; lines 80 and 82 are also English ...
198 chapter 6 and literature, one dependent on accumulation and standardization, the intellect-as-excrement image is both humoro ...
the before- and afterlife of meter 199 education impact and play out in the metrical discourses of the period. From Anna Letitia ...
200 chapter 6 The Laws of Verse Dear Laws, come to my breast! Take all my frame, and make your close arms meet Around me; and so ...
the before- and afterlife of meter 201 Not Common Law, but Equity, is theirs — Our metres; play and agile foot askance, And dist ...
202 chapter 6 and trapped parrot, has become the metrical foot itself: not the poet or the poem, but that term with which we des ...
the before- and afterlife of meter 203 This reticence, born of a Victorian education that respected the misunder- stood laws of ...
204 chapter 6 various English meters. I realize, as I hope you do as well, that I cannot account for all varieties of metrical d ...
the before- and afterlife of meter 205 more deeply into the interiors of domestic spaces and concepts of gendered poetics.^22 Th ...
206 chapter 6 other possible ways of reading both “poetry” and “verse,” of identifying “En- glishness” within literary studies—w ...
207 Notes Introduction: The Failure of Meter The records to which I refer here were destroyed in the Second World War and not ...
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