A Study of Walt Whitman's Mimetic Prosody: Free-Bound and Full Circle (Studies in American Literature)

By Doug Martin

This work suggests that Walt Whitman, in Leaves of Grass, combines both free verse and traditional prosody in mimetic ways. This study follows the thought of Pasquale Jannacone's 1987 work, Walt Whitman's Poetry and the Evolution of Rhythmic Forms, a work not translated from the Italian until 1973, and thus highly ignored by American scholars. This study, however, is more in-depth in its use of the accentual-syllabic approach to prosody.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773464158
• ISBN13: 9780773464155
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"