Dylan Thomas's meters
Fabb, Nigel and Halle, Morris; Torrego, Esther, ed. (2012) Dylan Thomas's meters. In: Of Grammar, Words, and Verses. Language Faculty and Beyond . John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 67-86. ISBN 978 90 272 0825 5
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This chapter applies to Dylan Thomas’s metrical poetry the theory of meter de- veloped in collaboration with Carlos Piera in Fabb and Halle (2008). We explain the various properties of the strict and loose meters used by Thomas. We also discuss some poems which can be analyzed as simultaneously in two meters at the same time: a strict syllable-counting meter and a loose stress-based meter. These polymetrical poems may reflect the influence, possibly mediated through Gerard Manley Hopkins, of the Welsh poetic tradition.
| Creators(s): |
Fabb, Nigel  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4820-7612 and Halle, Morris;
Torrego, Esther
| Item type: | Book Section |
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| ID code: | 40326 |
| Notes: | e-issn: 978 90 272 7456 4 |
| Keywords: | meter, Dylan Thomas, linguistics, English literature |
| Subjects: | Language and Literature > English literature |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English |
| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date deposited: | 03 Jul 2012 13:07 |
| Last modified: | 02 Jul 2020 17:59 |
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| URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/40326 |
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