Metre (poetry)/Bibliography

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A list of key readings about Metre (poetry).
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  • David Baker, ed. Meter in English: A Critical Engagement. Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press, 1996. ISBN 1-55728-444-X. A collection of essays in which a group of contemporary poets give their answers to a common list of questions about meter, ranging from nomenclature to ideological issues.
  • Paul Fussell. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. Rev. ed. McGraw-Hill, 1979. ISBN 0-07-553606-4.
  • Charles O. Hartman. Free Verse: An Essay in Prosody. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1980. Reprinted in paperback, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8101-1316-3. Valuable in this context for its rigorous definitions of terms such as "prosody," "metre," and "rhythm."
  • John Hollander. Vision and Resonance: Two Senses of Poetic Form. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1975. Chapter 7 is especially relevant.
  • Mary Kinzie. A Poet's Guide to Poetry. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN 0-226-43739-6. Chapters 8 and 10 are especially relevant.
  • Karl Shapiro and Robert Beum. A Prosody Handbook. New York: Harper & Row, 1965).