English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats - Softcover

Barnes, T

 
9780521094337: English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats

Synopsis

While verse as sound is its main concern, the book can be read as an introductory history of English verse from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

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Book Description

Every poet has a characteristic tone of voice and his own rhythm. T. R. Barnes' chief interest is this 'sound poems make in the head' and his particular gift is to help us to hear what is going on in the individual poem and to catch the poet's individuality.

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9780521041096: English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats

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ISBN 10:  0521041090 ISBN 13:  9780521041096
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1967
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