Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter
By the close of the nineteenth century, many poets had abandoned rhyme and meter in favor of “free verse.” Nearly one hundred years later, a growing number of younger poets are reclaiming traditional conventions of prosody by composing rhymed and measured poetry.

Missing Measures is the first full articulation of the aesthetics of this new movement. Timothy Steele, one of the best of those poets who are sometimes called the “New Formalists,” treats his subject against a backdrop of the long history of ideas about poetry, formulated first by the ancients and re-examined and re-interpreted by subsequent writers.

Steele offers a new perspective on the wholesale departure from tradition proclaimed in modernist critical justifications. A rare marriage of clear writing, careful scholarship, and bold thinking, Missing Measures provides a vital new movement with a critical manifesto.

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Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter
By the close of the nineteenth century, many poets had abandoned rhyme and meter in favor of “free verse.” Nearly one hundred years later, a growing number of younger poets are reclaiming traditional conventions of prosody by composing rhymed and measured poetry.

Missing Measures is the first full articulation of the aesthetics of this new movement. Timothy Steele, one of the best of those poets who are sometimes called the “New Formalists,” treats his subject against a backdrop of the long history of ideas about poetry, formulated first by the ancients and re-examined and re-interpreted by subsequent writers.

Steele offers a new perspective on the wholesale departure from tradition proclaimed in modernist critical justifications. A rare marriage of clear writing, careful scholarship, and bold thinking, Missing Measures provides a vital new movement with a critical manifesto.

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Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter

Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter

by Timothy Steele
Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter

Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter

by Timothy Steele

Overview

By the close of the nineteenth century, many poets had abandoned rhyme and meter in favor of “free verse.” Nearly one hundred years later, a growing number of younger poets are reclaiming traditional conventions of prosody by composing rhymed and measured poetry.

Missing Measures is the first full articulation of the aesthetics of this new movement. Timothy Steele, one of the best of those poets who are sometimes called the “New Formalists,” treats his subject against a backdrop of the long history of ideas about poetry, formulated first by the ancients and re-examined and re-interpreted by subsequent writers.

Steele offers a new perspective on the wholesale departure from tradition proclaimed in modernist critical justifications. A rare marriage of clear writing, careful scholarship, and bold thinking, Missing Measures provides a vital new movement with a critical manifesto.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781557281265
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication date: 03/01/1990
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 350
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Timothy Steele was born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1948. He has a doctorate from Brandeis University and receieved a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He is an associate professor of English at California State University in Los Angeles. Steele is the author of two collections of poetry, Uncertainties and Unrest and Sapphics Against Anger. Recipient of the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Steele lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Victoria.
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