Once upon a midnight dreary, an English professor at Princeton sat in her office, musing over many volumes of forgotten lore about the right way to read a poem. There were handbooks, essays, letters ...

Princeton University has created the Princeton Prosody Archive, a full-text searchable database of more than 10,000 digitized records on the teaching of poetry between 1750 and 1923. Prosody refers to ...

THE study of poetic metres is called prosody. Prosody is known as arooz or ilm-i-arooz, not only in Urdu but in Arabic and Persian as well. Other prosodic terms such as behr (metre), rukn (feet of a ...

Stunning. Exhilarating. Nearly thoroughly gratifying. All the positives can be pressed into play to describe the current production of Les Miserables at The Theatre at Solaire. And I’m not saying that ...

Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 37 (December 2015), pp. 67-112 (46 pages) This article addresses the challenge of investigating the tonal rules in the work of the three ...

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CASANOVA JONES—Joseph Anthony— Century ($2). THE FUTURE OF DRINKING—Gilbert Seldes—Little, Brown ($2). Anti-Prohibitionists may think it significant when publishers venture books making jokes about ...

The structure and principles of Kannada prosody has now been introduced in English for the benefit of non-Kannada readers and scholars. Written by B.A. Vivek Rai, former Vice-Chancellor of Kannada ...