Meter and Meaning

In Meter and Meaning poet Thomas Carper and distinguished scholar Derek Attridge join forces to communicate a new, user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. Side-stepping the jargon that often runs through discussions of meter, the authors begin with the basic idea of poetry as a performance and suggest an entirely fresh approach to reading poetic texts. As they guide us through exercises and ideas, they equip us with a new understanding of the relationship between meter and meaning in poems of all periods. Assuming no previous knowledge of meter, the authors ensure a smooth passage to an advanced knowledge of poetic rhythms. Perhaps even more importantly, they make studying meter a pleasure and reading poetry a revelation. This is the only guide to meter you will ever need and a must-read for anyone who wants to study, write or better appreciate poetic texts.

ISBN 0415311756   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780415311755 (What's this?)   Pages 168 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Routledge   Weight (grammes) 204 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 14 Aug 2003   Height (mm) 197 Non-book description xii, 156 p. ;   Width (mm) 127 Library of Congress PN1042   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 821.009   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

		Acknowledgments
		Introduction
1		Basic rhythms		1
2		Beats: B, b, [B]		18
3		Offbeats: o, O, -o-, [o], o		34
4		Scanning poems		46
5		Rhythmic figures		76
6		Names and labels		87
7		Meter and meaning		104
8		Identifying meters and stanza-forms		124
		Where to go from here		145
		Scansion symbols		147
		Afterword		151
		Index of poets and poems		153

'This is far and away the most accessible, effective and enjoyable introduction to meter I have come across. I have nothing but admiration for what the writers have done.' - Rob Pope, Oxford Brookes University

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