Lexington Books
Pages: 318
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-9146-1 • Hardback • December 2019 • $142.00 • (£109.00)
978-1-4985-9147-8 • eBook • December 2019 • $134.50 • (£104.00)
Richard Hillyer is professor of English at the University of South Alabama.
Preface. “Ur-Syllabic Verse”
Part I : Auden’s Syllabic Forerunners
Chapter 1. “Any Definite Uniform Propriety”: Bridges and Moore as Metrical Innovators
Chapter 2. “Pompous Old Gentleman” and “Marxist Enfant Terrible”: Bridges and Auden as Strange Bedfellows
Part II: Auden’s Syllabic Forms
Chapter 3. “Games and Grammar and Metres”: Alcaic Quatrains
Chapter 4. “New Problems of Form”: Sapphic Quatrains
Chapter 5. “A Sober Perspective”: Asclepiadean Quatrains
Chapter 6. “Unmythical Mortals”: Quasi-Elegiac Couplets
Chapter 7. “As Structures Go”: Varieties of Rhyme
Chapter 8. “Symmetries and Asymmetries”: Adaptations of Haiku and Tanka
Chapter 9. “Making a . . . Line”: Related Stanzas and Couplets
Chapter 10. “Contradictory Dialect”: Alliterative Lines
Chapter 11. “Some Prosodic Discipline”: Miscellaneous Lines, Couplets, and Stanzas
Works Cited
Index
About the Author