Meter in English
A Critical Engagement
Edited by David Baker
978-1-55728-444-0 (paper)
July 1997
$24.95
About
Renowned poets and experts in metrics respond to Robert Wallace’s pivotal essay, which clarifies and simplifies methods of studying poetry. Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass has called Wallace’s essay “a paradigm shift” in our understanding of English prosody.
Author
David Baker is author or editor of fourteen books of poetry and criticism. He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair at Denison University, teaches regularly in the Warren Wilson College MFA program, and is the poetry editor of the Kenyon Review.