Richard Hillyer

Auden's Syllabic Verse

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of W. H. Auden's many syllabics, revealing them as highly various in both form and content. It also discusses his achievement in relation to the work of two pioneers in the writing of English syllabic verse: Robert Bridges and Marianne Moore.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9781498591461
• ISBN-10: 1498591469
• Artikelnr.: 57836678

Autorenporträt

By Richard Hillyer

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. "Ur-Syllabic Verse"
Part I : Auden's Syllabic Forerunners
Chapter 1. "Any Definite Uniform Propriety": Bridges and Moore as Metrical
Innovators
Chapter 2. "Pompous Old Gentleman" and "Marxist Enfant Terrible": Bridges
and Auden as Strange Bedfellows
Part II: Auden's Syllabic Forms
Chapter 3. "Games and Grammar and Metres": Alcaic Quatrains
Chapter 4. "New Problems of Form": Sapphic Quatrains
Chapter 5. "A Sober Perspective": Asclepiadean Quatrains
Chapter 6. "Unmythical Mortals": Quasi-Elegiac Couplets
Chapter 7. "As Structures Go": Varieties of Rhyme
Chapter 8. "Symmetries and Asymmetries": Adaptations of Haiku and Tanka
Chapter 9. "Making a . . . Line": Related Stanzas and Couplets
Chapter 10. "Contradictory Dialect": Alliterative Lines
Chapter 11. "Some Prosodic Discipline": Miscellaneous Lines, Couplets, and
Stanzas
Works Cited
Index
About the Author