In Defence of the Dolnik: Twentieth-Century British Verse in Free Four-Beat Metre
A number of twentieth-century British poets have written poems in a free four-beat metre that draws on long-standing traditions of English verse but that cannot be satisfactorily analysed in terms of prosodic feet. A convenient term for this type of metre is “dolnik”, borrowing from the Russian pros...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2011-02-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2797 |