The Rise and Fall of Meter

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  • Introduction: The Failure of Meter Acknowledgments ix

  • Modern Instability

  • Metrical Communities

  • Meter as Culture

  • A Note on Historical Prosody

  • Chapter 1: The History of Meter

  • A Metrical History of England

  • A Grammatical History of England

  • Grammatical Instability

  • Metrical Instability

  • Chapter 2: The Stigma of Meter

  • Metrical Irrelevance

  • The British Empire of Letters

  • Marking Instress

  • Acute Stress in “The Wreck of the Deutschland”

  • Mistrusting the Ear

  • Chapter 3: The Institution of Meter

  • Metrical Mastery

  • Inventing the Britannic

  • Dynamic Reading

  • Mastery for the Masses

  • The English Ear

  • A Prosodic Entity

  • Chapter 4: The Discipline of Meter

  • Patriotic Pedagog y

  • Matthew Arnold’s Metrical Intimacy

  • Henry Newbolt’s Cultural Metrics

  • Private Meters, Public Rhythms

  • The Sound of the Drum

  • Chapter 5: The Trauma of Meter viii contents

  • Wartime, Poetics

  • Sad Death for a Poet!

  • Therapeutic Measures

  • Bent-Double

  • The Kindred Points of Heaven and Home

  • Chapter 6: The Before- and Afterlife of Meter

  • Metrical Modernism

  • Make It Old: Robert Bridges and Obsolescence

  • Alice Meynell’s “English Metres”

  • Toward a Critical Prosody

  • Notes

  • Wo r k s C i t e d

  • Index

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