Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics

by Ben Glaser

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421439522
• ISBN13: 9781421439525
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"