Meter in English: A Critical Engagement
- Author / Editor
- Baker, David, ed.
Meter in English: A Critical Engagement
- Published
- Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 368 pp.
- Description
- A symposium on English poetic meter. Robert Wallace proposes ten rules for clarifying discussion of meter, and fourteen writers critique the validity and utility of the propositions; Wallace responds in a final essay. Recurring concerns include the variety of meters in English, degrees of stress, and precision of metrical terminology.
- The essays include examples from Chaucer's works throughout.
- Contributor
- Wallace, Robert.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.