Meter in English: A Critical Engagement

Author / Editor
Baker, David, ed.

Title
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.