Hardy's metres and Victorian prosody : with a metrical appendix of Hardy's stanza forms
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Hardy's metres and Victorian prosody : with a metrical appendix of Hardy's stanza forms
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1988
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Hardy's meters and Victorian prosody
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Bibliography: p. [267]-284
Includes index
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This discussion of the extensive range of Thomas Hardy's metrical poetry, sees his work as an important link between traditional and free verse, and between Victorian and modern theories of the stanza. His experiments were rooted in dramatic developments made by Victorian metrical theorists, who, nurtured by Hegelian ideas and theories of Gothic architecture, achieved a mature understanding of the abstract nature of metrical form. More than any other English poet, Hardy experimented with hundreds of stanza forms in which he mixed original and traditional elements; the metri cal glossary included here is considered to be the most exhaustive now available. The book is designed to appeal to those interested in Thomas Hardy as well as those interested in poetry, metre, nineteenth century intellectual history and Victorian England.
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Part 1 Victorian prosody and its backgrounds: the history of English prosody
- Patmore and the new prosody
- the architectural analogy. Part 2 Hardy and Victorian prosody: the poetic tradition
- Hardy and the prosodists
- Hardy's English stanza forms
- the metrical constituents of Hardy's verse
- Hardy and the theory of dipody. Part 3 Hardy and the tradition of sound symbolism: the history of onomatopoeic theory
- sound symbolism in Hardy's stanzas. Part 4 The development of Hardy's metres: clock time
- music
- wind and water
- light and shadow
- note - "The Dynasts". Part 5 Hardy's shaped stanzas and the stanzaic tradition: Hardy and the tradition of inscription poetry
- visuality in the accentual-syllabic tradition
- Hardy and free verse
- final experiments. Afterword. Metrical appendix. Bibliography. Index.
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