William Vesterman (essay date summer 1984)
SOURCE: Vesterman, William. “The Motives of Meter in ‘Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter.’” The Southern Quarterly 22, no. 4 (summer 1984): 42-53.
[In the following essay, Vesterman analyzes the meter of “Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter.”]
… metre is fundamental in the problem posed to the artist … Here let us ask the question always in order against a Milton poem: What was the historical metrical pattern already before him, and what are the liberties he takes with it?...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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