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English poetry --- Poets, English --- Soldiers' writings, English --- Soldiers --- World War, 1914-1918 --- English soldiers' writings --- Poetry --- English literature --- anno 1910-1919

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Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline. The Rise and Fall of Meter tells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture.

Poetics --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- English language --- English poetry --- History --- Versification. --- History and criticism. --- Metrics and rhythmics --- Prosody --- Arthur Brock. --- Craiglockhart War Hospital. --- English education. --- English language. --- English literature. --- English meter. --- English poet. --- English poetry. --- English prosody. --- English soldiers. --- Ezra Pound. --- George Saintsbury. --- Gerard Manley Hopkins. --- Henry Newbold. --- Matthew Arnold. --- Milton's Prosody. --- Robert Bridges. --- Society for Pure English. --- Victorian England. --- Victorian meter. --- Victorian tradition. --- W. H. R. Rivers. --- grammatical history. --- literary movements. --- metrical communities. --- metrical culture. --- metrical history. --- metrical mastery. --- metrical poetry. --- national identity. --- patriotic pedagogy. --- poems. --- poetic form. --- poetic meter. --- poetry writing. --- poetry. --- poets. --- prose. --- prosody. --- state-funded education. --- Germanic languages

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English poetry --- World War, 1914-1918 --- War poetry, English --- Poésie anglaise --- Première guerre mondiale --- Poésie de guerre anglaise --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature et guerre --- Soldiers' writings, English --- -War poetry, English --- -Soldiers' writings, English --- -World War, 1914-1918 --- -European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- English soldiers' writings --- English war poetry --- English literature --- -History and criticism --- Poésie anglaise --- Première guerre mondiale --- Poésie de guerre anglaise --- Littérature et guerre --- World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain - Literature and the war --- English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism --- War poetry, English - History and criticism --- Soldiers' writings, English - History and criticism