The Music of Verse: Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

by Joseph Phelan

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Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the 'music' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse.
  • ISBN13 9780230247468
  • Publish Date 6 January 2012 (first published 16 December 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 225
  • Language English