Bücher von Nigel (University of Strathclyde) Fabb

This new approach to poetry, which explores how language is shaped to fit human memory, is substantiated by an unrivalled selection of examples taken from over 130 world literatures. An impressive survey of metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism in poetical forms across the globe and throughout history.

Meter in Poetry is the first book to offer a universal linguistic theory of poetic meter. Fabb and Halle outline the theory and then illustrate and defend it by presenting detailed metrical analyses of poems in many languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, classical Greek, French, Arabic, and Sanskrit.

Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of poetic form in English from 1500-1900, drawing on the English and American verse and oral narrative tradition, as well as contemporary criticism. He offers a new linguistic approach to how metre and rhythm work in poetry.