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All The Fun's In How You Say A Thing: An Explanation Of Meter & Versification
Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun it is also a wide-ranging study of English verse and a mine of entertaining information for anyone wishing more fully to write, enjoy, understand, or teach poetry.
Paperback, 377 pages
Published
April 30th 1999
by Ohio University Press
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Rereading this one for renewed instruction. If I'd only read this book as a freshman in college, it would have saved me years of confusion about the inner workings of verse and prose poems. And I likely would have written more effective poems, both metered and unmetered. I also love Steele's Missing Meaures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter, though it's a weighty one.
My favorite essay by Steele can be found here:
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/tst...
My favorite essay by Steele can be found here:
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/tst...
This is probably the best of all the introductory books on meter, versification, scansion, and whatnot. It is complete, engaging, as entertaining as a book like this can be, and, best of all, focused and exhaustive.
A wonderfully thorough introduction to English meter. After reading it, I feel like I can actually "get" poetry.
A great book for versifyers.Get all your meter questions answered here.
The best introduction to meter I have read.
My rating is subject to questioning since I didn't get very far before I had to return it to the library.
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