Communications
Autumn 1956
Communication
(Concerning “English Verse and What It Sounds Like,” Summer issue) Sir: I’m sorry that my footnote should appear to Mr. Ransom to undercut so radically my criticism of Mr. Stein. […]
English Verse and What It Sounds Like
Summer 1956
Mr. Stein on Donne
I should like to question Professor Stein’s interpretation of the meter of Donne’s Elegy X (Kenyon Review, XIII, 261-2, and reprinted in expanded form in the present issue). Mr. Stein’s […]
English Verse and What It Sounds Like
Summer 1956
Robert Frost’s “Mowing”: An Inquiry into Prosodic Structure
I. Three Theories of Prosody In Theory of Literature, Professors Wellek and Warren consider the weaknesses of three kinds of metrical analysis: the “graphic,” derived from classical metrics; the “musical,” […]