Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Rhythm’s Critiques
5. Why Rhythm? 21
6. What Is Called Rhythm? 40
7. Sordello’s Pristine Pulpiness 60
8. Body, Throng, Race
9. Th e Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics 87
10. Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body 106
11. Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm 128
12. Beat and Count
13. Th e Rhythms of the English Dolnik 153
14. How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper 174
15. Picturing Rhythm 197
16. Fictions of Rhythm
17. Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets’ Investments of Belief in Sounds 223
18. Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm? 247
19. Rhythm and Affect in “Christabel” 274
20. Acknowledgments 297
21. List of Contributors 299
22. Index 303
23. Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics 311