Modernism's Metronome

Ben Glaser is an assistant professor of English at Yale University. He is the coeditor of Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Modernist Scansion: Robert Frost's Distorted VernacularChapter 2. Penty Ladies: T. S. Eliot, Satire, and the Gender of Modern MeterChapter 3. "No Feet to Walk On": Pound's Late Victorian ProsodyChapter 4. Metristes: Formal Feeling in Sara Teasdale, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Louise BoganChapter 5. The Prosody of Passing: Jean Toomer and James Weldon JohnsonChapter 6. Folk Iambics: Sterling Brown's Outline for the Study of the Poetry of American NegroesConclusion. Prosody after FormAppendix. Scansion and Metrical NotationNotesWorks CitedIndex

Modernism's Metronome is an extremely learned book.—Scarlett Higgins, University of New Mexico, American Literary Review