- Introduction
- Voice: human embodied cognition
- Breaking the pentameter
- What is distinctive about free verse?
- The basis of prosody in music
- The basis of prosody in dance
- A new prosody 1: elements of the system
- A new prosody 2: how the system works
- A new prosody 3: the system in action
- Free verse across the world
- Free verse in translation
- Writing free verse
- Reading free verse
- What lies beyond free verse?
- Postscript: June Fires
Biography
Richard Andrews is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He has recently served as Professor in English and Dean of the Faculty of Children and Learning at UCL’s Institute of Education in London, and as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He is author of several books for Routledge, including Rebirth of Rhetoric, Argumentation in Higher Education, Re-framing Literacy and A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric.
"In A Prosody of Free Verse, Richard Andrews is breaking new ground in terms of our understanding of how rhythm works in non-metrical poetry. In doing so, he is doing a service for teachers, who have wanted to draw attention to rhythm in poetry, but did not have the language to do so." —Terry Locke, University of Waikato, NZ
"In this text, Richard Andrews describes and demonstrates an innovative new approach to analyzing and composing free verse; this approach upends traditional methods of poetic analysis by supplementing musical perspectives on verse with visual and kinetic ones. In so doing it reflects a broader trend towards conceptualizing the whole notion of text in multimodal terms." —Sarah Beck, New York University, USA
