Modernism's metronome :: meter and twentieth-century poetics /

"The author offers a historical account of modernist poetic form and analyzes how poetry was read and written in the twentieth century. The rise of free verse in the early 1900s is commonly thought to be a resistance to or liberation from regimented meter, privileging instead an element of &quo...

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Main Author: Glaser, Ben (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Series:Hopkins studies in modernism.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"The author offers a historical account of modernist poetic form and analyzes how poetry was read and written in the twentieth century. The rise of free verse in the early 1900s is commonly thought to be a resistance to or liberation from regimented meter, privileging instead an element of "rhythm," but the author reads a range of modernist poetry in relation to the historical practice of metrical form"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781421439532
1421439530