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Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody
By (Author) Charles O. Hartman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
808.1
Hardback
212
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
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 tw