Hardy's metres and Victorian prosody: with a metrical appendix of Hardy's stanza forms

Abstract

Introduction. Part 1 Victorian prosody and its backgrounds: the history of English prosody Patmore and the new prosody the architectural analogy. Part 2 Hardy and Victorian prosody: the poetic tradition Hardy and the prosodists Hardy's English stanza forms the metrical constituents of Hardy's verse Hardy and the theory of dipody. Part 3 Hardy and the tradition of sound symbolism: the history of onomatopoeic theory sound symbolism in Hardy's stanzas. Part 4 development of Hardy's metres: clock time music wind and water light and shadow note - The Dynasts. Part 5 Hardy's shaped stanzas and the stanzaic tradition: Hardy and the tradition of inscription poetry visuality in the accentual-syllabic tradition Hardy and free verse final experiments. Afterword. Metrical appendix. Bibliography. Index.