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(More customer reviews)Attridge is a careful and helpful reader of English poetry. This book, one of several he has written on the subject, is both elementary and profound. The field is fraught with difficulties and ambiguities, but Attridge sensibly avoids the silly stuff. He provides a helpful summary with eachchapter, and numerous exercises that are both instructive and enjoyable.This is the kind of book one feels ought to mark a turning point in thestudy of prosody. If others may be persuaded to adopt his system ofscansion, the field will be enormously rejuvenated. Having read it, onereturns to earlier work by Fussell, Gross, Hartman and others wishing theymight revise their books accordingly. In any case, the book is spirited,wide-ranging, and important.
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This is the first introduction to rhythm and meter that begins where students are: as speakers of English familiar with the rhythms of the spoken word, nursery rhymes, song and rap. Poetic Rhythm builds on this knowledge and experience, moving from basic questions about the rhythms of spoken English to the elaborate achievements of past and present poets. Terminology is straightforward and there are frequent practical exercises. Poetic Rhythm will help readers of English poetry experience and enjoy its power, subtlety and diversity, and will serve as an invaluable tool for those who write or discuss poetry in English.
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