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Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms. Emphasizing both the coherence and the diversity of English metrical practice from Chaucer's time to ours, Timothy Steele explains how poets harmonize the fixed units of meter with the variable flow of idiomatic speech. He examines the ways in which poets have used meter, rhyme, and stanza to communicate and enhance meaning. Steele illuminates as well many practical, theoretical, and historical issues in English prosody, without ever losing sight of the fundamental pleasures, beauties, and insights that fine poems offer us. Written lucidly, with a generous selection of helpful scansions and explanations of the metrical effects of the great poets of the English language, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is not only a valuable handbook on technique; it is also a wide-ranging study of English verse and a mine of entertaining information for anyone wishing more fully to write, enjoy, understand, or teach poetry.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing
• Author: Timothy Steele
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780821412602
• ISBN: 0821412604
• ID: 02146612
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Weight: 590 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 135 × 42 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. April 1999

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