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The Music of Verse

Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

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  • © 2012

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  1. Joseph Phelan
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-12

  3. A Note on Terminology and Metrical Markings

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    Pages 13-14

  4. Music and Metre

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    Pages 15-44

  5. The English Hexameter in Theory and Practice

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    Pages 45-87

  6. Native Traditions: Anglo-Saxon and Alliterative Verse

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    Pages 88-133

  7. ‘The Accent of Feeling’: Towards Free Verse

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    Pages 134-180

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 181-225
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Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the 'music' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse.

About the author

JOSEPH PHELAN was Educated at King's College Cambridge and King's College London, and is currently Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is the author of The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet (2005), and the editor (along with John Woolford and Daniel Karlin) of Browning: Selected Poems (2010).

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