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Index
Book Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Series editor’s introduction to the Interface series
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Theory
INTRODUCTION: THE DOUBLE PATTERN
ROMAN JAKOBSON
THE SLIDING SCALE
NATURALISATION
HISTORIES
HISTORY, CONTEXT AND TEXT
2 Shakespeare and the metaphysicals
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
THE METAPHYSICALS
Exercises
TEXTS
3 The Restoration and the eighteenth century
CONTEXT
THE COUPLET
PARADISE LOST
BLANK VERSE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
RHYME, THE SUPERREADER AND THE SUPERPOEM
Exercises
THE COUPLET
BLANK VERSE
4 Romanticism
LYRICAL BALLADS: POEMS AS PICTURES
THE ROMANTIC PROGRAMME: PROBLEMS AND CONTRADICTIONS
BLAKE AND THE ARBITRARY NATURE OF LANGUAGE
THE ODE AND DECONSTRUCTION
THE ROMANTIC PARADOX: A SUMMARY
Exercises
5 Victorian poetry
TENNYSON
ARNOLD
EXPERIMENT
CONJECTURES
BROWNING
CONCLUSION
Exercises
6 Modernism and criticism
WHAT IS FREE VERSE?
TO DEFINE THE INDEFINABLE
BEGINNINGS
WILLIAMS AND VISUALISM
T.S.ELIOT
MODERN AND POSTMODERN FORM
THE CLASHING OF CODES: A DEFINITION OF MODERNISM
Exercises
BARING THE DEVICE
WHAT IS A FREE VERSE LINE?
VISUAL POETRY
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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