Seamus Heaney''s Rhythmic Contract

Informationen zum Autor JASON DAVID HALL is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. With Ashby Bland Crowder, he is editor of Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator . Klappentext While glosses on Heaney's verse forms figure more or less in critical accounts of his poetry, this is the first book to take the craft of his art as its focus. Setting out a historically informed approach to poetic form, the book places Heaney's developing versification in the context of mid-century Anglo-American theories of metre and rhythm. Zusammenfassung While glosses on Heaney's verse forms figure more or less in critical accounts of his poetry! this is the first book to take the craft of his art as its focus. Setting out a historically informed approach to poetic form! the book places Heaney's developing versification in the context of mid-century Anglo-American theories of metre and rhythm. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Note on Terms and Scansion Introduction: Reading Heaney's Rhythms Embedded Poetics 'Well-Made' Foundations Renewing Contracts: Heaney's 'Free' Verse Fixed Form: The Sonnet Envoy Glossary of Selected Prosodic Terms Bibliography Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: J Hall, J. Hall, Jason David Hall
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780230574885
• ISBN: 978-0-230-57488-5
• Pagine: 197
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; B, Poetry, Literature: history & criticism, Phonetics, phonology, Phonology and Phonetics, Phonology, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, British literature, British and Irish Literature, metre;poetics;poetry;British and Irish Literature