Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against MeterUniversity of Arkansas Press, 1990年1月1日 - 340 頁 "Timothy Steele's excellent book is not a formalist manifesto but an even-handed scholarly account of the whole background of 'free verse' poetics". -- Richard Wilbur |
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3 From Organic Form to Free Verse | 190 |
4 The Rise of Music the Fall of Poetry | 201 |
5 Versification as Musical Form | 207 |
Sciences of Sentiment The Crisis of Experimental Poetry | 222 |
1 Progressive Science Regressive Poetry? | 226 |
Novelty Modern Verse and Science | 239 |
The Poet as Scientist | 250 |
Poetry as Fact or Formula | 258 |
The Reverses of Time The Origin and History of the Distinction between Verse and Poetry | 107 |
1 The Ancient Sources of the Modern Distinction | 110 |
2 The Renaissance Conflation of Aristotle Quintilian Plutarch and Servius | 129 |
3 The Modern Opposition of Verse and Poetry | 147 |
Free Verse and Aestheticism | 169 |
1 The Background of Aestheticism | 172 |
2 Autonomous Poetry Autonomous Poet | 186 |
5 Superstition and Experiment | 269 |
CONCLUSION | 277 |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 293 |
NOTES | 295 |
INDEX | 327 |
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第 262 頁 - It is the presentation of such a "complex" instantaneously which gives that sense of sudden liberation; that sense of freedom from time limits and space limits; that sense of sudden growth, which we experience in the presence of the greatest works of art.
第 54 頁 - And it would be a most easy task to prove to him that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written.
第 195 頁 - For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
第 158 頁 - There is this difference between a story and a poem, that a story is a catalogue of detached facts, which have no other connection than time, place, circumstance, cause and effect; the other is the creation of actions according to the unchangeable forms of human nature, as existing in the mind of the creator, which is itself the image of all other minds.
第 60 頁 - HD', Richard Aldington and myself decided that we were agreed upon the three principles following: 1. Direct treatment of the 'thing' whether subjective or objective. 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
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