Nice Glossary--useful especially for the many Greek words (retained in study because the English phrases are so long)--but does not include a definition of "Prosody". (!) {The patterns of stress and intonation in a language, usually as presented in a poem}.

Noting that Rossetti takes up the traditiona motif of the lament for a dead lady with a new turn in "The Blessed Damozel". He "determined to reverse the conditions and give utterance to the yearning of the loved one in heaven." [167]
Heaven is treated "with the tentativeness and marmoreal quality that seem appropriate; the lady's delicacy, passionate longing, and odd mixture of ethereality and voluptuousness are vividly rendered." The poem illustrates the various problems in the "sheer mechanics of scansion" [!]:

The sun | was gone | now; the | curled moon
Was like | a lit|tle feath|er
Fluttering | far down | the gulf; | and now
She spoke | through he | still weath|er.
Her voice | was like | the voice | the stars
Had when | they sang | togeth|er.

Contents:

1. Prosody as a Study
2. Poetry and Verse.
3. Syllables: Color, Stress, Quantity, Pitch
4. The Foot
5. The Line
6. Accentual and Syllabic Verse
7. Meter and Rhythm
8. the Uses of Meter
9. Tempo
10. Rhyme
11. The Uses of Rhyme
12. The Stanza
13. Stanza Forms
14. The Sonnet
15. Blank Verse
16. Free Verse
17. Classical Prosody
18. Prosody and Period
19. Scansions and Comments

With Glossary, Bibliography and Index.

Interesting book about prosody. Have to read it in detail, from Margriet Tindemans

This is the best book for learning about the "tools of the trade" in poetry and literary writing. It is amazing what a good author, with a mastery of basic literary tools, can do with the sounds of a language. Really enjoyed. ( )