...Walt Hunter [email protected] Ben Glaser , Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics , Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 When I was in eighth grade, my Latin teacher pulled in the TV cart...

... . ———. 1847 . Poems . Boston : James Munroe . ———. 1870 . “Courage.” In Society and Solitude . Boston : James R. Osgood . Finch Annie . 1987 . “Dickinson and Patriarchal Meter: A Theory of the Metrical Code.” PMLA 102 : 166 – 76 . Friedman Albert . 1961 . The Ballad...

..., though this always takes place at a remove, since meter itself is not traumatizing, but provides an apt vehicle for representing the unrepresentable quality of trauma. Komunyakaa creates haunting figures of traumatic memory by fusing these with the inassimilable, repetitive force of poetic rhythm...

.... 1958 . Reflections on the Psalms . New York : Harcourt Brace . Milton John . 1953-82 . Prose Works . Yale Edition . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Parker Matthew , Archbishop . 1567 . The Whole Psalter translated into English Meter . . . . London : John Daye...

... center" (Nishen 10). With a total floor area of 2,200 square meters over three stories, the Info Box was elevated to 8 meters above ground, forming a rectangle that was 23 meters high, 62.5 meters long, and 15 meters wide. The total space floor was divided into 1,200 square meters...

.... The natural medium for recitation was the hexameter, the grandest and most ancient of metres. (142) The orality of recitation required a sharp memory, and one aspect of metre is certainly its mnemonic force, since it superimposes an apprehensible pattern on the irregular movement of prose...

... scheme or meter, what is the difference between prosody and history? Such genre crossings, it might be said, occur in Auden and the Muse of History itself, though only multiple readings might elucidate them all. One of the most apparent is suggested by Gottlieb's very deliberate arrangement of its...

... by Elam Helen Regueiro Ferguson Frances , 149 – 57 . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Mahoney John L. 1997 . William Wordsworth: A Poetic Life . New York : Fordham University Press . Martin Meredith . 2012 . The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English...

... not differ from each other because the one writes in verse and the other in prose; for the history of Herodotus might be written in verse, and yet it would be no less a history with metre than without metre.” Here, comparing “prose” to “verse,” not poetry, is a classification that lets these thinkers brush...

... where and how poetry s cognitive and ethical work occurs. Ben Glaser is assistant professor of English at Yale University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in ELH, PMLA, Victorian Poetry, Modernism/moder- nity, and other venues. He is the author of Modernism s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth...

... that meter can bear the weight of historical thinking without subject matter, reference, or description prompting or guiding us, and even less certain why we might want to insist otherwise. Goodman understands Wordsworth's poetry as enacting “a peculiar historiography or historical thinking that did...

..." of the panorama, the meter and sense of this line echoes that with which he celebrates the powers of the imagination in Book 6. Just as he redeems the disappointment of the Simplon Pass crossing by re-reading natural sights as "Characters of the great Apocalypse / The types and symbols of Eternity...

... dance opon my Toes. Given that Dickinson often figures powerful emotion as electrical, anticipating the affective responses today s electronics make possible (33), this reviewer would have welcomed a comparison with how the Victorian poets discussed in Jason R. Rudy s Electric Meters (2009) figured...

..., including concepts of meter and form. Booksellers provide literary taxonomies for consumers, who tend to buy within a preferred genre, such as western, memoir, science fiction, or romance. These taxonomies even enable online retailers such as Amazon to maximize sales by generating auto- mated...

... be taken as seriously as his meter and his imagery. "Poetry and metaphysics coincide, in Leopardi, with [the] course of being. Here, poetics is so internal to ontology that the mechanisms of self-valorization manifest themselves as a natural flux .. ." (page 24 below). In short, Negri insists that we...

... the proto- modernist innovator of lyric form, Emily Dickinson, in a lively and popular poetic culture that was largely felt by modernist culture to be an embarrassment. Miller argues that critics have concentrated on her hymn meter with an intensity that has obscured her deep education in the ballad...

... and studio production at least as much as on the traditionally analyzed parameters of tonality, harmony, and meter; in other words, how the song sounds is as important—if not more so—than what is sounding. This has become increasingly true in recent years; the increasingly sampling- and remix- based...

... incantation, an intermedi- ary stage between ritual and tragedy.52 Typical of such dithyrambs are a rhythmi- cal drive, formulaic or hieratic diction, a lexicon combining religious terminolo- gy and markedly folk language, and a tonic meter that bears associations with both ancient and folk rituals...

... and literary traditions. In spite of their differences, Mandarin, Cantonese and various dialects spoken among the Chinese immigrants are monosyllabic. Readers who speak different dialects can still have similar reading experience of the songs in the written form because of the presence of the meter...

..., and though the term elegy original- ly referred to a meter rather than a mood or subject matter, lament can trace its roots as an oral song of mourning into the pre-history of ancient Greece.2 Both are, typically, stylized formal responses to the death of a friend, family member, or public figure...