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An introduction to the metrics of Shakespeare & his day. - Rated
George T. Wright's "Shakespeare's Metrical Art" is an
introduction not only to the art of Iambic Pentameter as
Shakespeare practiced it but also a starting point to an
understanding the art of Iambic Pentameter itself. Mr. Wright
argues that in Shakespeare the Iambic Pentameter meter found
its greatest and most flexible practitioner. In
appreciating the beauty of Shakespeare's artistry we also
come to appreciate the intrinsic artistry and beaty of the
meter. Mr. Wright's journey begins with Chaucer and Wyatt,
the former being the earliest practitioner of the Iambic
Pentameter line and also the greatest until Shakespeare. His
reading of Chaucer's lines, as most often Iambic Pentameter,
sometimes runs counter to accepted wisdom, yet, as with his
conception of the meter itself, his argument is well-reasoned
and convincing. More contraversial is his treatment of Wyatt's
often inconsistent use of meter. Yet, here again, Wright
offers the reader a plausible framework into which Wyatt's
poetry becomes another expression of the meter's vitality and
flexibility. From the further disintegration of the meter
after Wyatt, Wright begins his treatment of Shakespeare's
metrical art. Every facet of Shakespeare's flexible and
imaginative use of the meter (his diversions from its strict
course) is methodically examined and considered for its
possible influence upon the meaning of the text. These
diversions include Shakespeare's use of long and short lines,
syllabic ambiguity, lines with extra syllables, lines with
omitted syllables, trochees, false trochees and other such
variations as are possible within the iambic pentameter meter.
Wright rounds off the book with an all too short consideratiom
of the meters use after Shakespeare -- including the writers
Donne, Milton, and in passing twentieth writers Frost, Stevens,
and Eliot. With Mr. Wright's contention that the Iambic
Pentameter meter reached its zenith at Shakespeare's hands,
his argument comes to the inevitable conclusion that Shakespeare's
skill is one which later generations may echo, rarely equal, but never exceed.
This is a book both for the lover of Shakespeare and the
reader of poetry who wishes to better understand the art of
one of the english language's greatest trimphs.
