Prosody
F05
Christopher Miller
An introduction to the subject that will also serve as a survey of English poetry. We will discuss works by most of the great English poets in connection with such topics as meter, scansion, rhyme schemes, line breaks, blank verse, free verse, stanzas, fixed forms, and nonce forms. Assignments will include a term paper, a presentation, and weekly imitations. Texts will include Paul Fussells’s Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, John Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason, and The New Penguin Book of Poetry.