All the Funs in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter & Versification Steele TimothyPaperback
All the Funs in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter & Versification Steele TimothyPaperback Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets,…
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All the Funs in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter & Versification Steele TimothyPaperback
Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms. Steele illuminates as well many practical, theoretical, and historical issues in English prosody, without ever losing sight of the fundamental pleasures, beauties, and insights that fine poems offer us.Written lucidly, with a generous selection of helpful scansions and explanations of the Emphasizing both the coherence and the diversity of English metrical practice from Chaucer's time to ours, Timothy Steele explains how poets harmonize the fixed units of meter with the variable flow of idiomatic speech, and examines the ways in which poets have used meter, rhyme, and stanza to communicate and enhance meaning.