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Poetic meter and poetic form

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Random House, 1979 - Fiction - 188 pages
Excerpts from distinctive poems illustrate the author's appreciation of the metrical and formal aspects of poetry

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User Review  - Maureen - Goodreads

I like this reference book on Poetry. I referred to it frequently. Read full review

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User Review  - Clarence Cromwell - Goodreads

This is the book that helped me to understand metric verse. It will make you a properly functioning poet. Read full review

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Contents

part one Poetic Meter
4
The Nature of Meter
5
The Technique of Scansion
17
Copyright

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About the author (1979)

Paul Fussell is the author of, among other works, Class and The Great War and Modern Memory, which won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named by the Modern Library as one of the twentieth century 's one hundred best nonfiction books. He lives in Philadelphia.

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