Shakespeare's Metrical ArtUniversity of California Press, 1988 M08 2 - 363 páginas This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language. |
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... feeling , enables it to leap from the speaking voice or text to the listening reader . Many who have been moved by these poems or plays will acknowledge that the patterned verse has something to do with their experience , but a more ...
... feeling , enables it to leap from the speaking voice or text to the listening reader . Many who have been moved by these poems or plays will acknowledge that the patterned verse has something to do with their experience , but a more ...
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... feeling is involved in its structures , and , when the occasion calls , to speak the verse with a finer sense of its rise and flow . In citing lines from Shakespeare's Sonnets , I have usually followed Booth's edition , except when the ...
... feeling is involved in its structures , and , when the occasion calls , to speak the verse with a finer sense of its rise and flow . In citing lines from Shakespeare's Sonnets , I have usually followed Booth's edition , except when the ...
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... feeling from , say , Browning's shorter line , “ So might I gain , so might I miss ” ( “ The Last Ride Together , ” line 40 ) , where the metrical break and balance match the phrasal break and balance . Poets have sometimes set ...
... feeling from , say , Browning's shorter line , “ So might I gain , so might I miss ” ( “ The Last Ride Together , ” line 40 ) , where the metrical break and balance match the phrasal break and balance . Poets have sometimes set ...
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... feeling of ease , of elegance , of achieved simplicity , iambic pentameter , whether in rhymed stanzas , heroic couplets , or blank verse , usually con- veys a sense of complex understanding , as if the speakers of such lines were aware ...
... feeling of ease , of elegance , of achieved simplicity , iambic pentameter , whether in rhymed stanzas , heroic couplets , or blank verse , usually con- veys a sense of complex understanding , as if the speakers of such lines were aware ...
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... feeling , especially when earlier lines ( from the previous sonnets in the sequence ) and later ones in this poem adhere more unambiguously to the iambic design , so that our experience of this line is influenced by our iambic set . But ...
... feeling , especially when earlier lines ( from the previous sonnets in the sequence ) and later ones in this poem adhere more unambiguously to the iambic design , so that our experience of this line is influenced by our iambic set . But ...
Contenido
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Pattern and Variation | 38 |
4 Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets | 57 |
Shakespeares Sonnets | 75 |
6 The Verse of Shakespeares Theater | 91 |
7 Prose and Other Diversions | 108 |
8 Short and Shared Lines | 116 |
14 The Play of Phrase and Line | 207 |
15 Shakespeares Metrical Technique in Dramatic Passages | 229 |
16 What Else Shakespeares Meter Reveals | 249 |
17 Some Metrically Expressive Features in Donne and Milton | 264 |
Verse as Speech Theater Text Tradition Illusion | 281 |
Percentage Distribution of Prose in Shakespeares Plays | 291 |
Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeares Plays | 292 |
Short and Shared Lines | 294 |
9 Long Lines | 143 |
More Than Meets the Ear | 149 |
11 Lines with Extra Syllables | 160 |
12 Lines with Omitted Syllables | 174 |
13 Trochees | 185 |
Notes | 297 |
Main Works Cited or Consulted | 325 |
Index | 339 |
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