Free Verse
：An Essay on Prosody
( Princeton Legacy Library )
Publication subTitle ：An Essay on Prosody
Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library
Author： Hartman Charles O.;;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781400855384
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691064383
Subject： I1 World Literature;I106.2 Poetry
Keyword： 世界文学
Language： ENG
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Description
To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics have faced in the past century, Charles Hartman takes up the challenge and develops a theory of prosody that includes the most characteristic forms of twentieth-century poetry
Originally published in 1981.
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