TY - BOOK AU - Glaser,Ben TI - Modernism's metronome: meter and twentieth-century poetics T2 - Hopkins studies in modernism SN - 9781421439532 AV - PS310.M57 G57 2020 U1 - 811/.509112 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Rhythm in literature KW - English language KW - Versification KW - Poetics KW - History KW - 20th century KW - English poetry KW - History and criticism KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Great Britain KW - American poetry KW - United States KW - Rythme dans la littérature KW - Anglais (Langue) KW - Poétique KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Poésie anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Modernisme (Littérature) KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Poésie américaine KW - États-Unis KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2446130 ER -