Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics

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Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics

Name: Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics
ISBN: 9781421439518

Ben Glaser

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Despite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification.

In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained in the archives, poems, letters, and pedagogy of modern poets and critics. In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the "breaking" of meter and rise of free verse.

Categories:

Arts - Music

Year:

2020

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

304

ISBN 10:

1421439514