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  <title><![CDATA[Poetic Meter and Poetic Form]]></title>
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  <default_description>The title of this book may suggest that it is designed as a latter-day Gradus ad Parnassum to teach aspiring writers to produce passable verses. It is not. It is intended to help aspiring readers deepen their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal properties of poetry and thus heighten their pleasure and illumination as an appropriately skilled audience of an exacting art.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1979</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Paul Fussell]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 29 06:24:31 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Split into two main sections, Meter and Form (per the title). The meter section was useful, but, as another reviewer here has stated, suffers from a glut of examples.  It drags on a bit.<br/>I found the form section the better of the two: discussions of line, rhyme, stanza, and a selection of stand...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22444853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15953585">
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 20 19:55:21 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 21 11:47:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Helpful but no imperative. A good explanation of prosody (without getting too lofty) and decent source for examples. I used the book to help my students scan poems better. *NOTE* The chapter on free verse is garbage.]]></body>
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    <review id="7312758">
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 05 12:32:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 05 12:38:18 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good on the fixed forms (which I should know MUCH more about considering my profession).  Utterly dismissive of anything innovative post-WW2.  Sometimes this contempt is valid, sometimes not.]]></body>
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    <review id="31895364">
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 03 06:56:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 03 07:09:14 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It would seem from the prevailing ratings for this book that I've overestimated the value of this book, but each rater, I'm sure his his own agenda; nevertheless, rarely have I read a work of reference that enthralled me as much as this one did, and I read it as one would a work of top-notch narrati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31895364">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28165998">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 06 10:45:46 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;What is wanted is the closest possible approximation of absolute density. For the texture of a poem must be dense: when old-fashioned critics assert that in a poem every vein must be rifted with ore, that is what, in their quaint way, they mean.&quot;<br/><br/>Urban density is what our exalt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28165998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29013410">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't always agree with some of Fussell's pronouncements, but on the whole he gives a very nice introduction to the principles of prosody. The book's precision is one of it's great strengths, but it can also be a weakness on occasion when it leads to black and white depictions of things that are n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29013410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39712658">
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    <name><![CDATA[Donna Rae]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 09 13:39:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[a must read for any poet, Fussell is arrogant but worth it ]]></body>
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    <review id="438613">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 26 13:19:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 26 13:22:00 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fussell has a good grip on basic forms, especially within the world of formal (i.e. metrical and/or rhymed) verse, and if you don't know about the subject, he'll educate you.  That said, there are two main problems, to my mind.  The lesser one is a glut of examples, which tend to beat a dead horse -...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/438613">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32455917">
    <user id="69413">
    <name><![CDATA[Sherry]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Paris, KY]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[students of formal poetry]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 09 12:49:28 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book, which was first published in 1966 I think, pretty conservative, not to say stodgy. Not an easy read, but I did discover some valuable ways to look at formal poetry. I hope I will be able to internalize them.]]></body>
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    <review id="13037755">
    <user id="808561">
    <name><![CDATA[J.R.]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paul is a romantic born in the wrong decade. He presents some compelling arguments for the use of rhyme in modern poetry but understand the movement away from it. A clear and concise read. ]]></body>
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    <review id="26869805">
    <user id="1288876">
    <name><![CDATA[Julie (julie37619)]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 10 11:28:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 10 11:28:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never would have learned how to scan poetry without this book.  Intensely boring, but lots of good information on writing and scanning poetry.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26869805]]></url>
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    <review id="30708735">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather June]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 20 15:12:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 25 09:28:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Indispensable.  Wish I could find a reasonably priced copy of this-- it's out of print, and the library made me give it back.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30708735]]></url>
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    <review id="26921371">
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    <name><![CDATA[Chuck]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just a great primer on how to read poetry and the subtleties that (can) go into its construction.]]></body>
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    <review id="15305528">
    <user id="206031">
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    <location><![CDATA[Santa Barbara, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[the tone of this book is annoying at times, but it totally helped me learn how to write in meter. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15305528]]></url>
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    <review id="5366919">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fussell. There must be a better book.]]></body>
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    <review id="1931306">
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    <body><![CDATA[Did dawn die in WWI?]]></body>
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