Syntax, English Poetry - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Germanic Languages - English Language, Phonetics, Poetry - Reference, Prosody, English Language Reference - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
When the sonnet's reader reaches the end of the third quatrain of an Elizabethan sonnet, or the end of the octave of a Petrarchan sonnet, something happens before moving on: a pause where the reader feels, Rich argues, the tone of the sonnet about to shift. To understand the cause of the shift, Rich studies syntax and compares tape-recorded readings of this pregnant pause, examining in particular, the suprasegmental phonemes of each reading (often comparing several readings of the same sonnet) and the poem's grammatical constituents. After a full explanation of terms and problems, Rich moves on to 15 sonnets by poets including Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Coleridge, Keats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Thom Gunn. Highly recommended for anyone serious about writing or teaching sonnets. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
January 1, 2000
Publisher
Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2000.
Pages
164
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780773477773