The Rise and Fall of Meter
128 chapter 4 Oh! If I’d a fife to wheedle, come boys come! You that mean to fight it out, wake and take your load again, Fall i ...
the discipline of meter 129 poetic with the “wheedle” of the whistle and the “rubadub” of the toy drum, Newbolt’s infantilizing ...
130 chapter 4 been exposed by 1918 as a false rhythm, unnatural and horrifying, and even more offensive than the popular poetry ...
the discipline of meter 131 the Family”). In his critical attempt at simplicity, Newbolt faults both newspa- per critics and ran ...
132 chapter 4 Bridges’s concerns had turned almost entirely to the promotion of phonetic spelling : What seems to have happened ...
the discipline of meter 133 gression in the continuum. While Newbolt seems to embrace his version of English national meter as t ...
134 chapter 4 recite a surprising number of separate poems, selected by themselves from their antholog y, and have read and appr ...
the discipline of meter 135 classical meters in favor of presenting a unifying rhythm to English patriotic culture. The echoes o ...
136 chapter 4 complication of Arnold’s hope of intimate metrical civilization; here, poetry has become an external cultural bond ...
the discipline of meter 137 Englishmen, play the game! A truce to the League, a truce to the Cup 5 Get to work with a gun. When ...
138 chapter 4 Nay. We see well what we are doing, 15 Though some may not see — Dalliers as they be! — England’s need are we; Her ...
the discipline of meter 139 through the pause after “Nay,” the line reads in trochees, only forcing one dac- tyl at the end: “Na ...
140 chapter 4 more memorable for its blatant patriotism. The poetry of Newbolt thematized this “native rhythm” as something that ...
the discipline of meter 141 if they are held to the standards he reserves for poetry. This reservation can be attributed to his ...
142 chapter 4 At the sound of the drum, Out of their dens they come, they come, The little poets we hoped were dumb, The little ...
the discipline of meter 143 attacked any more than hymns. Like hymns, they play with common ideas, with words and names which mo ...
144 chapter 4 century, poetry of the First World War is asked to both “stir” and to “subdue,” and yet the distinction between po ...
145 < 5 > The Trauma of Meter A thousand suppliants stand around thy throne, Stricken with love for thee, O Poesy. I stand ...
146 chapter 5 and elite cultures were invested in a concept of English meter that stood for an idealized “Englishness.” Pitting ...
the trauma of meter 147 ing” promoted by Captain Brock. Brock’s method also promoted a different kind of metrical culture—which ...
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