The Rise and Fall of Meter
108 chapter 3 and linguistic understanding of the various possibilities for English prosody, lost out to the pedagogic and patri ...
109 < 4 > The Discipline of Meter Young men, whose knowledge of grammar, of the minutest details of geographical and histo ...
110 chapter 4 many educational theorists began to see an opportunity in the teaching of English poetry to promote a kind of “ord ...
the discipline of meter 111 funded classrooms of the lower and middle classes, on the other.^5 Looking only at the examinations ...
112 chapter 4 poetry from the front—became associated with English patriotism and, more generally, with English meter, though it ...
the discipline of meter 113 Code, the legislation of which was administered by “her majesty’s inspectors” (HMIs), more tradition ...
114 chapter 4 Though Arnold does not name the poem or the book, he does say that the “specimen of popular poetry” he disparages, ...
the discipline of meter 115 Oh! She’s a true and old land, This native land of mine. Oh! She’s a fresh and fair land, Oh! She’s ...
116 chapter 4 reviewer’s opinion that verses could help the collective feel a sort of “anima- tive, impulsive sympathy” with the ...
the discipline of meter 117 Rhythm, itself perhaps only understood by Arnold as more subtly manipu- lated rhythm, made into good ...
118 chapter 4 metrical intimacy to civilize is a crucial benefit, for Arnold, of good English poetry.^26 The poetry Arnold derid ...
the discipline of meter 119 taught to stand at “attention,” and to pace according to different musical time. Below are two examp ...
120 chapter 4 God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion ove ...
the discipline of meter 121 Mr. Kipling is a master of captivating sing-song, a magician of the catches and refrains of melodies ...
122 chapter 4 as a reminder that the Edwardian period was fraught with repetitions of lin- guistic insecurity left over from the ...
the discipline of meter 123 When he asks his sister why she doesn’t look at them, she replies: “I don’t like to see them—they’re ...
124 chapter 4 merely the most famous example, from the writer with the pedigree of a classi- cal education, of a wide variety of ...
the discipline of meter 125 and Poems, New and Old (1913-17), and in countless newspapers and war an- thologies. “Drake’s Drum” ...
126 chapter 4 noticed that the placards for the St. James’s Gazette in which the poem was published bore “two words only, in eno ...
the discipline of meter 127 use of exclamation points and ellipses. “Rejoice to obey,” we are told, “the beat that bids thee dra ...
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