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All The Funs In How You Say A Thing: An Explanation Of Meter And Versification

Author: Steele, Timothy
Hardback; Book; Illustrations
366 pages
Published: June 1999
Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821412590

Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms. Emphasizing both the coherence and the diversity of English metrical practice from Chaucer's time to ours, Timothy Steele explains how poets harmonize the fixed units of meter with the variable flow of idiomatic speech, and examines the ways in which poets have used meter, rhyme, and stanza to communicate and enhance meaning. Steele illuminates as well many practical, theoretical, and historical issues in English prosody, without ever losing sight of the fundamental pleasures, beauties, and insights that fine poems offerSuitable for general readers of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring or even experienced poets, this is an enjoyable overview of the use of meter in English poetry. Steele (English, California State U.) provides scansions and explanations of the uses of meter in the works of pro

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