Wit's Voices: Intonation in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry
This work shows how seventeenth-century English lyric poets were able to control the way that their poetry sounds when read aloud, and thus to influence emotional force and meaning. It begins by addressing the criticizing contemporary treatments of meter. It then gives a theoretical and descriptive account, based on Dwight Bolinger's analysis of English intonation, of how and why iambic pentameter uniquely permits a poet to achieve both a regular rhythm and an expressive variety in intonation. The rest of the book consists of close readings of poems by Surrey, Sidney, Donne, Jonson, Herbert, and others to show each poet controlling intonation…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61149-118-0
- EAN: 9781611491180
- Produktnummer: 20061898
- Verlag: Univ Of Delaware Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Masse: H24.8 cm x B16.8 cm x D1.9 cm 499 g
- Gewicht: 499
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