The rise and fall of meter : poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930

著者

• Martin, Meredith

書誌事項

The rise and fall of meter : poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930

Meredith Martin

Princeton University Press, c2012

• : hc
• : pbk

タイトル別名

Poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and index

収録内容

• Introduction: the failure of meter
• Modern instability
• Metrical communities
• Meter as culture
• A note on historical prosody
• The history of meter
• A metrical history of England
• A grammatical history of England
• Grammatical instability
• Metrical instability
• The stigma of meter
• Metrical irrelevance
• The British empire of letters
• Marking instress
• Acute stress in "The wreck of the Deutschland"
• Mistrusting the ear
• The institution of meter
• Metrical mastery
• Inventing the "Britannic"
• Dynamic reading
• Mastery for the masses
• The English ear
• A prosodic entity
• The discipline of meter
• Patriotic pedagogy
• Matthew Arnold's metrical intimacy
• Henry Newbolt's cultural metrics
• Private meters, public rhythms
• The sound of the drum
• The trauma of meter
• Wartime, poetics
• Sad death for a poet!
• Therapeutic measures
• Bent-double
• The kindred points of heaven and home
• The before- and afterlife of meter
• Metrical modernism
• Make it old : Robert Bridges and obsolescence
• Alice Meynell's "English metres"
• Toward a critical prosody

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hc ISBN 9780691152738

内容説明

Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, 'English meter' concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline. "The Rise and Fall of Meter" tells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Failure of Meter 1 Modern Instability 1 Metrical Communities 5 Meter as Culture 10 A Note on Historical Prosody 14 Chapter 1: The History of Meter 16 A Metrical History of England 16 A Grammatical History of England 33 Grammatical Instability 39 Metrical Instability 42 Chapter 2: The Stigma of Meter 48 Metrical Irrelevance 48 The British Empire of Letters 52 Marking Instress 54 Acute Stress in --The Wreck of the Deutschland-- 61 Mistrusting the Ear 67 Chapter 3: The Institution of Meter 79 Metrical Mastery 79 Inventing the Britannic 87 Dynamic Reading 91 Mastery for the Masses 94 The English Ear 99 A Prosodic Entity 102 Chapter 4: The Discipline of Meter 109 Patriotic Pedagogy 109 Matthew Arnold?s Metrical Intimacy 112 Henry Newbolt?s Cultural Metrics 122 Private Meters, Public Rhythms 130 The Sound of the Drum 139 Chapter 5: The Trauma of Meter 145 Wartime, Poetics 145 Sad Death for a Poet! 150 Therapeutic Measures 158 Bent-Double 171 The Kindred Points of Heaven and Home 176 Chapter 6: The Before- and Afterlife of Meter 181 Metrical Modernism 181 Make It Old: Robert Bridges and Obsolescence 187 Alice Meynell?s "English Metres" 198 Toward a Critical Prosody 203 Notes 207 Works Cited 241 Index 261

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780691155128

内容説明

Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline. The Rise and Fall of Meter tells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Failure of Meter 1 Modern Instability 1 Metrical Communities 5 Meter as Culture 10 A Note on Historical Prosody 14 Chapter 1: The History of Meter 16 A Metrical History of England 16 A Grammatical History of England 33 Grammatical Instability 39 Metrical Instability 42 Chapter 2: The Stigma of Meter 48 Metrical Irrelevance 48 The British Empire of Letters 52 Marking Instress 54 Acute Stress in --The Wreck of the Deutschland-- 61 Mistrusting the Ear 67 Chapter 3: The Institution of Meter 79 Metrical Mastery 79 Inventing the Britannic 87 Dynamic Reading 91 Mastery for the Masses 94 The English Ear 99 A Prosodic Entity 102 Chapter 4: The Discipline of Meter 109 Patriotic Pedagogy 109 Matthew Arnold's Metrical Intimacy 112 Henry Newbolt's Cultural Metrics 122 Private Meters, Public Rhythms 130 The Sound of the Drum 139 Chapter 5: The Trauma of Meter 145 Wartime, Poetics 145 Sad Death for a Poet! 150 Therapeutic Measures 158 Bent-Double 171 The Kindred Points of Heaven and Home 176 Chapter 6: The Before- and Afterlife of Meter 181 Metrical Modernism 181 Make It Old: Robert Bridges and Obsolescence 187 Alice Meynell's "English Metres" 198 Toward a Critical Prosody 203 Notes 207 Works Cited 241 Index 261

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB09039141
• ISBN:
  • 9780691152738
  • 9780691155128
• LCCN: 2011026832
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Princeton, N.J.
• ページ数/冊数: 274 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PR595.V4
  • DC23 : 821/.809
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English language -- Versification
  • LCSH : National characteristics, English, in literature
  • LCSH : Poetics -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Poetics -- History -- 20th century