The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination

by John Talbot

Book Overview

This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today. English poets have always admired the extraordinary beauty and intricacy of the alcaic stanza (Tennyson called it 'the grandest of all measures') and their inventive responses to the ancient alcaic have generated remarkable innovations in the rhythms, sounds and shapes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135023253X
• ISBN13: 9781350232532
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"