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Finally got through the entire edition. I must admit the Dickinson piece held me up a bit. It's a bizarre bit of work. And the "Syllabics in Auden" piece after that was a proper sleep aid. Jeez. Here I am trying to convince my writer friends that poetics are fun, and then I come across material like that. But the last two articles are corkers. The Eliot vs Milton bit got me thinking I'd write up a few notes, and I ended up at some length, and dragging in more Robert Graves than I'd intended: http://copia.posterous.com/quotidie-eliot-milton-and-ars-versificandi The handy review of *Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information*<http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195181689>made it clear that at some time in the future I'll be putting an $85 hole in my pocket. I wonder whether there are other reliable sources for articles on prosody. Googling "journal prosody," seems all roads lead back to *Versification*...or outward to speech pathology. --Uche On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Yes, it's a fascinating piece, but even though it seems to begin by > contradicting poets such as Howe in their suggestion that Dickinson is > pre-post-modernist, it ends up supporting them, just differently. But it > does demonstrate that ED was not doing any ordinary 19th century poetic > thing. > > Poets when they write criticism tend to write a kind of personal poetics, > finding in the poets & poetry they write about what actually underwrites > their own work, so too Howe, but then we read something like My Emily > Dickinson precisely for that. > > Joy Ladin ends up by showing us that ED was, even in her utilization of a > conventional metric just as unconventional as 'we' have been saying for > years now; & therefore very much an influence on a lot of modern & > postmodern poetry. > > Doug > > On 6-May-10, at 5:17 PM, Uche Ogbuji wrote: > > I'm well chuffed to find a new issue of Versification. Articles on >> Milton, >> Auden and Emily Dickinson. I've just got through the Dickinson piece, and >> it's as good as you expect from the Journal. >> >> www.arsversificandi.net >> >> >> -- >> Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net >> Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com >> Linked-in profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji >> Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ >> TNB: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ >> Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/uche >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/uogbuji >> http://www.google.com/profiles/uche.ogbuji >> >> > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/> > > Latest books: > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > Wednesdays' > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > The secret > > I was immediately set upon by two or three > critics, who hurled sophistries and > maledictions at me that were astonishing > in their dimness. > > Jorge Luis Borges > -- Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net Weblog: http://copia.ogbuji.net Poetry ed @TNB: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com Linked-in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/uche Twitter: http://twitter.com/uogbuji http://www.google.com/profiles/uche.ogbuji