- 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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