Meter Matters : Verse Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century.

Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction A Great Multiplication of Meters -- One Meter and Meaning -- Two Romantic Measures -- Stressing the Sound of Sound -- Three Byron's Feet -- Four "Break, Break, Break" into Song -- Five Material Patmore -- Six "For the Inscape's Sake" -- Sounding the Self in the Meters of Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Seven "But the Law Must Itself Be Poetic" -- Swinburne, Omond, and the New Prosody -- Eight Popular Ballads -- Rhythmic Remediations in the Nineteenth Century -- Nine Blank Verse and the Expansion of England -- The Meter of Tennyson's Demeter -- Ten Prosody Wars -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Across the nineteenth century, meter mattered--in more ways and to more people than we might well appreciate today. For the period's poets, metrical matters were a source of inspiration and often vehement debate. And the many readers, teachers, and pupils encountered meter and related topics in both institutional and popular forms.

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