The Rise and Fall of Meter by Martin, Meredith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Failure of Meter

Modern Instability Metrical Communities Meter as Culture A Note on Historical Prosody

Chapter 1: The History of Meter

A Metrical History of England A Grammatical History of England Grammatical Instability Metrical Instability

Chapter 2: The Stigma of Meter

Metrical Irrelevance The British Empire of Letters Marking Instress Acute Stress in “The Wreck of the Deutschland” Mistrusting the Ear

Chapter 3: The Institution of Meter

Metrical Mastery Inventing the Britannic Dynamic Reading Mastery for the Masses The English Ear A Prosodic Entity

Chapter 4: The Discipline of Meter

Patriotic Pedagogy Matthew Arnold’s Metrical Intimacy Henry Newbolt’s Cultural Metrics Private Meters, Public Rhythms The Sound of the Drum

Chapter 5: The Trauma of Meter

Wartime, Poetics Sad Death for a Poet! Therapeutic Measures Bent-Double The Kindred Points of Heaven and Home

Chapter 6: The Before- and Afterlife of Meter

Metrical Modernism Make It Old: Robert Bridges and Obsolescence Alice Meynell’s “English Metres” Toward a Critical Prosody

Notes Work Cited Index

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