When we listen to the words of a poet in the theater, or read them silently on the page, what is it that we hear? How do such crafty writers as Shakespeare or Donne, Wyatt or Yeats, Wordsworth or Lowell arrange their rhythms to make their poetry more expressive? A gathering of perceptive essays written over twenty-five years, this book by a distinguished scholar and poet helps us hear the measures poets use to conjure up strangeness, urgency, distance, surprise, the immediacy of speech, or the sounding of silence.
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George T. Wright is Regents' Professor of English emeritus at the University of Minnesota and has published widely as both a scholar and a poet. His books include Shakespeare's Metrical Art and Aimless Life, a collection of poems.
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This is one of the best books about rhythm available anywhere. Wright is a expert on Shakespeare but comments with equal perspicacity on other authors and offers a model for literary analysis. His essay on the present tense in lyric poetry, which he calls "the lyric present," is very original and importand -- and not nearly so widely known as it ought to be.
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