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Reading the Rythm

By Clive Scott

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0-19-815882-3
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1655031 bytes)
Pages
296\296
Time added
2013-02-17 13:07:36

Description

We are still a long way from knowing how to read the rhythms of free verse, a poetry which has been largely neglected by metrical theory. Clive Scott's readable and scholarly study indicates the strategies of reading needed in order to do justice to free verse's rhythmic versatility. The core of the book is an analysis of key twentieth-century poets and poems, including Perse's Eloges; Cendrars's Prose du Transsiberien, Dix-neuf poemes elastiques, and Documentaires; Apollinaire's Calligrammes; Supervielle's Gravitations; and Reverdy's Sources du vent. He also looks at contemporary trends in the visual arts--Cubism, Futurism, Orphism, photography--to illuminate free verse's perceptual models and discusses the theme of travel and movement.

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