Missing Measures (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Timothy Steele
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Literature, Poetry or poets, Writing, Aesthetics, Modernism
Over the last few decades, there have been several attempts to explain the diminishing status of poetry and its shrinking audience. Timothy Steele’s exploration contributes to this discussion and raises it to a new level of sophistication. One precursor is Paul Fussell’s influential text on prosodic analysis, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965), designed to teach a liberated generation raised on free verse how to be responsive to the expressive values of meter, fixed forms, and stanzaic composition. Central to Fussell’s demonstrations is the conservative argument that great...
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