Nigel Fabb and Morris Halle ; with a chapter on Southern Romance meters by Carlos Piera.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
1 online resource (x, 297 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293) and index.
A theory of poetic meter -- English strict meters -- English loose meters -- Southern Romance / by Carlos Piera -- French -- Greek -- Classical Arabic -- Sanskrit -- Latvian -- Meters of the world -- The metrical poetry of the Old Testament.
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Many of the great works of world literature are composed in metrical verse, that is, in lines which are measured and patterned. Meter in Poetry: A New Theory is the first book to present a single simple account of all known types of metrical verse, which is illustrated with detailed analyses of poems in many languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, French, classical Greek and Latin, Sanskrit, classical Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Latvian. This outstanding contribution to the study of meter is aimed both at students and scholars of literature and languages, as well as anyone interested in knowing how metrical verse is made.