Modernism's metronome : meter and twentieth-century poetics / Ben Glaser.

"The author offers a historical account of modernist poetic form and analyzes how poetry was read and written in the twentieth century. The rise of free verse in the early 1900s is commonly thought to be a resistance to or liberation from regimented meter, privileging instead an element of "rhythm," but the author reads a range of modernist poetry in relation to the historical practice of metrical form"-- Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The ""Metronome -- Meter and Modern Aurality -- Meter as Vestige -- 1 Modernist Scansion: Robert Frost's Distorted Vernacular -- Frost's Theory of Meter and Practice of Scansion -- The ""Hen Dekker Syllables"" of ""For Once, Then, Something -- The Late Meter of ""Directive -- 2 Penty Ladies: T.S. Eliot, Satire, and the Gender of Modern Meter -- Too Penty"" Ladies -- Meter after Satire: The Waste Land -- Formal Sensibility for a Post-metrical Culture

3 ""No Feet to Walk On"": Pound's Late Victorian Prosody -- Late Victorian Pound -- Anima"" Meter: Bare-Foot and Stub-Toed -- The Ripost eagainst Meter -- Pan, Syrinx, and Sappho: Pound's Editorial Control and H.D.'s HERmione -- 4 Metristes: Formal Feeling in Sara Teasdale, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Louise Bogan -- Sara Teasdale and the Labor of the Line -- Georgia Douglas Johnson's Metrical Bars -- Louise Bogan's Precise Pentagon -- 5 The Prosody of Passing: Jean Toomer and James Weldon Johnson -- Spirituals after the Victrola -- Cane as Collection -- Kabnis's Unheard Blues

James Weldon Johns on: Re-scanning the Anglo-American Tradition -- Rhythmic Exegesis -- 6 Folk Iambics: Sterling Brown's Outline for the Study of the Poetry of American Negroes -- Black"" Rhythm's Double Audience -- Brown's Outline and Johnson's Book of American Negro Poetry -- When de Saints Go Ma'ching Home -- Conclusion. Prosody after Form -- Appendix. Scansion and Metrical Notation -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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