Past Essays

Vol. 1, 1997

A Disciplinary Map for Verse Study
Richard D. Cureton

Verse, Prose, Speech, Counting, and the Problem of Graphic Order
David J. Rothman

Poetic Rhythm: Performance Patterns and their Accoustic Correlates
Reuven Tsur

"The Invisible Orders that Sustain Us": Robert Richman on Versification
David Caplan, interviewer

 

Vol. 2, 1998

A Nonsynchronous Model for the Performance of the Middle English Tail-Rhyme Stanza with Vielle
Linda Marie Zaerr

Translating Alexandrines: Sonnets of Ronsard and Baudelaire
Thomas Carper

 

Vol. 3, 1999

The Chomsky of Grub Street: Edward Bysshe at the Triumph of Classroom Metrics
Peter L. Groves

Past Reviews

Vol. 1, 1997

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler. 1997.
Bedford Books, Boston. pp. 656.
ISBN 0 312 08537 0 (pb).
Reviewed by Richard D. Cureton

Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of C. B Hieatt edited and with an introduction by M. J. Toswell. 1995.
University of Toronto Press, Toronto. pp. 223.
ISBN 0-8020-0653-1 (hb).
Reviewed by H. T. Kirby-Smith

Meter in English: A Critical Engagement edited by David Baker. Contributors: Robert Wallace, Eavan Boland, Annie Finch, Dana Gioia, Rachel Hadas, Charles O. Hartman, Robert Hass, Margaret Holley, John Frederick Nims, David J. Rothman, Timothy Steele, Lewis Putnam Turco, Barry Weller, Richard Wilbur, Susanne Woods. 1996.
University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville. pp. 368.
ISBN 1-55728-422-9 (hb), 1-55728-444-X (pb).
Reviewed by Anne Mahoney

The Scissors of Meter: Grammetrics and Reading by Donald Wesling. 1996.
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
ISBN 0-472-10715-1 (hb).
Review by Brennan O'Donnell

Rethinking Meter: A New Approach to the Verse Line by Alan Holder. 1995.
Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg (London: Associated University Presses). pp. 298.
ISBN 0-8387-5292-6. (hb).
Reviewed by G. Burns Cooper

The Songs of Aristophanes by L. P. E. Parker 1997.
Clarendon Press, Oxford. pp. 584.
ISBN 19-814944-1 (hb).
Reviewed by Anne Mahoney

 

Vol. 2, 1998

Rethinking Meter: A New Approach to the Verse Line by Alan Holder. 1995.
Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg (London: Associated University Presses). pp. 298.
ISBN: 0-8387-5292-6 (hb).
Reviewed by Annie Finch