The Passion of Meter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: An Ear for Poetry

PART ONE:The Passion of Meter

1. Similitude in Dissimilitude

2. Metrical Tension and Varieties of Voice

PART TWO: The Versification of Poems

3. “Words in Tuneful Order”: Wordsworth’s Early Versification,
An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches

4. Varieties of Rhyme: The Stanzaic Verse of the Lyrical Ballads

5. “Infinitely the Most Difficult Metre to Manage”:
Characteristics of Wordsworth’s Blank Verse

Conclusion: On the Power of Sound