All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification by Steele, Timothy
All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification by Steele, Timothy

All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification

Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the...
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Author: Timothy Steele
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All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification by Steele, Timothy

All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification

CHF 54.69
All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification by Steele, Timothy

All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification

CHF 54.69
Author: Timothy Steele
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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 offer us.

Written lucidly, with a generous selection of helpful scansions and explanations of the metrical effects of the great poets of the English language, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is not only a valuable handbook on technique; it is also a wide-ranging study of English verse and a mine of entertaining information for anyone wishing more fully to write, enjoy, understand, or teach poetry.

Author: Timothy Steele
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 04/30/1999
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.91w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780821412602

About the Author

Timothy Steele's previous collections of poetry include The Color Wheel and Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986. He has also published two widely discussed works of literary criticism, Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter and All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification. He is a professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. For more information, visit his website.


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