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Alison Armstrong-Webber
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Username: Alison_aw
Post Number: 185
Registered: 01-2010
| | Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 02:33 pm: | 
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If you've got anything to link to, or perhaps you've written something yourself? |
Staff Richard Jordan
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Username: Staff_richard_jordan
Post Number: 106
Registered: 12-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 03:56 pm: |
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Alison,
I have an essay I wrote a few years ago. Well, I have a hardcopy, for sure. I'm going to have to check to see if I have an electronic copy stored on my old computer. If so, I'll send it to you.
I like this book:
Writing Metrical Poetry: Contemporary Lessons for Mastering Traditional Forms, by William Baer
and this one even more:
All The Fun's In How You Say A Thing: An Explanation Of Meter & Versification, by Timothy Steele
you could probably order them used on line, or ask your local library to get them for you, via inter-library loan, if it doesn't have them on the shelves...
Rich
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Alison Armstrong-Webber
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Username: Alison_aw
Post Number: 190
Registered: 01-2010
| | Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 05:00 pm: |
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Thanks, Rich! Fun sounds like a good start.
A |
Staff Esther Murer
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Username: Staff_esther_greenleaf_murer
Post Number: 26
Registered: 12-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 06:05 pm: |
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The Ode Less Traveled, by Stephen Fry
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, by Paul Fussell
Rhyme's Reason, by John Hollander
Esther |
tom brady
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Username: Lute
Post Number: 13
Registered: 03-2010
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 07:36 am: |
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might bowl down to a qestion of naturalness for me, the meter is always pre-existing, a fixed part of each word--
formal is a standardized form, to me that always smelled a bit faint, and then they always sniffed abit in poetry that had none, not realizing the meter already there, for which we have no name as yet, except for vers libre, which has led to more intercourse & license therefore, and sigh as yet one has to say, a great confusion and such towers to even rival Babal.
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Staff Colin Ward
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Username: Staff_colin_ward
Post Number: 44
Registered: 12-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 02:37 am: |
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Alison:
Well, if seeking a series for relative newcomers who can get past some rough sledding in the first two or three articles, you might consider "The Poetic Craft" series as a quick-and-dirty option:
Part I: Introduction to Verse
http://www.poets.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9441
Part II: Scansion
http://www.poets.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9901
Part III: Rhyme
http://www.poets.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10421
Part IV: Forms
http://www.poets.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11012
Part V: Sonics
http://www.poets.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11588
Part VI: Song Lyrics
http://www.poets.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12065
Part VII: The Rhythms of Free Verse
http://www.poets.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12455
Part VIII: Markets
http://www.poets.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12913
For the more advanced aspirant, though, I can't think of a better resource than the "PFFA Blurbs of Wisdom":
http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&forumid=34
HTH,
Colin |
Mary MacGowan
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Username: Marymacgowan
Post Number: 477
Registered: 01-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 09:47 pm: |
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i think the best metrical poetry is so good that at first you don't even notice the meter (or rhyme, etc)
mm
www.morningglorythecd.com
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