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where will we find people interested in a format that people rejected for 6+ centuries before the 20th?
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You can find one here, I am waving my hand like mad.
Maryann, a quick plundering of my bookshelves yields the following and I am sure you have some of these on your shelves. None are totally devoted to the subject, but have sections you can weigh against each other.
Being a know-nothing, I am hanging on every word that Alicia says, but one thing I am good at is being a looker-upper.
Prosody Handbok; A Guide to Poetic Form (Robert Beum and Karl Shapiro) gives a little history, and examples from the pioneer of the form Robert Bridges (Elizabeth Daryush's father).
I mentioned elsewhere the chapter by Margaret Holley in (eds.) Finch & Varnes
An Exaltation of Forms.
In Annie Finch's
The Ghost of Meter in the chapter
T.S. Eliot and the Metrical Crisis of the Early Twenthieth Century.
Tim Steele's
All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing, Chapter 9
Alternative Modes of Versification in English Section 2
Syllabic Verse.
A Formal Feeling Comes, (ed) Annie Finch, a chapter by Rosellen Brown,
On Syllabics and Cora Fry. (Explaining her poem Cora Fry).
A Linguist Guide to English Poetry -Geoffrey N. Leech though not specifically about syllabic verse has two interesting chapters on sound (6) and meter (7).
That should give you some insights. If I knew everything in these books I would be one smart gal, but I am a looker-upper, when I have the need to know something. Quick and fragmented is not good, but better than nothing.
Tell me when you need more, and I will do another shelf raid.
Some like to experiment, some do not. I do. Those who do not, can stick to rigidly defined ip, poetry's missionary postiion, with a bit of blank verse on Saturday night. Whatever turns you on, friends.
Reading instructions. This is a humorous post.
