The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New Concept - Paperback
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The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New Concept
Incredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used. It likewise had no cultural connotations. This book traces the complex and overlooked way in which anglophone culture "got rhythm," concentrating on the pivotal role that poetry played in that narrative.
The Turn of Rhythm offers the first book-length study of this distinctively nineteenth-century...
Ewan Jones is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at Downing College, Cambridge University, and the author of Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form.
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