The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse

by Annie Finch

Book Overview

The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse provides a new strategy for interpreting the ways in which metrical patterns contribute to the meaning of poems. Annie Finch puts forth the theory of "the metrical code," a way of tracing the changing cultural connotations of metered verse, especially iambic pentameter. By applying the code to specific poems, the author is able to analyze a writer's relation to literary history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472087096
• ISBN13: 9780472087099
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"