Meter matters: verse cultures of the long nineteenth century

Table of Contents * List of Illustrations * Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction A Great Multiplication of Meters Jason David Hall * One: Meter and Meaning Isobel Armstrong * Two: Romantic Measures Stressing the Sound of Sound Susan J. Wolfson * Three: Byron's Feet Matthew Bevis * Four: Break, Break into Song Yopie Prins * Five: Material Patmore Jason R. Rudy * Six: For the Inscape 's Sake Sounding the Self in the Meters of Gerard Manley Hopkins Summer J. Star * Seven: But the Law Must Itself Be Poetic Swinburne, Omond, and the New Prosody Yisrael Levin * Eight: Popular Ballads Rhythmic Remediations in the Nineteenth Century Michael Cohen * Nine: Blank Verse and the Expansion of England The Meter of Tennyson's Demeter cornelia Pearsall * Ten: Prosody Wars Meredith Martin * Select Bibliography * Notes on * Contributors * Index