Meter in Poetry is the first book to offer a universal linguistic theory of poetic meter. Fabb and Halle outline the theory and then illustrate and defend it by presenting... Læs mere
aeo Offers an overview of how linguistic theory can be applied to the oral and written literatures of the world. aeo Illustrated with examples from around 100 different literary traditions, quoting texts in the original languages, fully translated and explained.
Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of poetic form in English from 1500–1900, drawing... Læs mere