The turn of rhythm : how Victorian poetry shaped a new concept /

"Engaging with literary, musical, philosophical and scientific thinking, Ewan Jones explores the birth of "rhythm" in the Victorian poetry of Robert Browning, George Eliot, Edmund Spenser, and others. The book demonstrates the vital importance of poetry to disciplines as varied as spe...

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Main Author: Jones, Ewan James (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Series:Victorian literature and culture series.
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Summary:"Engaging with literary, musical, philosophical and scientific thinking, Ewan Jones explores the birth of "rhythm" in the Victorian poetry of Robert Browning, George Eliot, Edmund Spenser, and others. The book demonstrates the vital importance of poetry to disciplines as varied as speech therapy, idealist philosophy, anthropology, and the thermal sciences, as they come to formulate rhythm for the first time"--
Physical Description:viii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813950303
0813950309
9780813950310
0813950317