Past Essays

Vol. 1, 1997

• A Disciplinary Map for Verse Study
  Richard D. Cureton
• Verse, Prose, Speech, Counting, and the Problem of Graphic Order
  David J. Rothman
• Poetic Rhythm: Performance Patterns and their Accoustic Correlates
  Reuven Tsur
• "The Invisible Orders that Sustain Us": Robert Richman on Versification
  David Caplan, interviewer

Vol. 2, 1998

• A Nonsynchronous Model for the Performance of the Middle English Tail-Rhyme Stanza with Vielle
  Linda Marie Zaerr
• Translating Alexandrines: Sonnets of Ronsard and Baudelaire
  Thomas Carper

Vol. 3, 1999

• The Chomsky of Grub Street: Edward Bysshe and the Triumph of Classroom Metrics
  Peter L. Groves

Vol. 4, 2005

• Finding his Feet: Wyatt and the Founding of English Metre
  Peter L. Groves

• 
  
  

Past Reviews

Vol. 1, 1997

• Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler, 1997.
  Bedford Books, Boston. pp. 656.
  ISBN 0 312 08537 0 (pb).
  Reviewed by Richard D. Cureton
• Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of C. B Hieatt edited and with an introduction by M. J. Toswell, 1995.
  University of Toronto Press, Toronto. pp. 223.
  ISBN 0-8020-0653-1 (hb).
  Reviewed by H. T. Kirby-Smith
• Meter in English: A Critical Engagement edited by David Baker. Contributors: Robert Wallace, Eavan Boland, Annie Finch, Dana Gioia, Rachel Hadas, Charles O. Hartman, Robert Hass, Margaret Holley, John Frederick Nims, David J. Rothman, Timothy Steele, Lewis Putnam Turco, Barry Weller, Richard Wilbur, Susanne Woods, 1996.
  University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville. pp. 368.
  ISBN 1-55728-422-9 (hb), 1-55728-444-X (pb).
  Reviewed by Anne Mahoney
• The Scissors of Meter: Grammetrics and Reading by Donald Wesling, 1996.
  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
  ISBN 0-472-10715-1 (hb).
  Review by Brennan O'Donnell
• Rethinking Meter: A New Approach to the Verse Line by Alan Holder, 1995.
  Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg (London: Associated University Presses). pp. 298.
  ISBN 0-8387-5292-6. (hb).
  Reviewed by G. Burns Cooper
• The Songs of Aristophanes by L. P. E. Parker, 1997.
  Clarendon Press, Oxford. pp. 584.
  ISBN 19-814944-1 (hb).
  Reviewed by Anne Mahoney

Vol. 2, 1998

• Rethinking Meter: A New Approach to the Verse Line by Alan Holder, 1995.
  Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg (London: Associated University Presses). pp. 298.
  ISBN: 0-8387-5292-6 (hb).
  Reviewed by Annie Finch