Music of Verse

JOSEPH PHELAN was Educated at King's College Cambridge and King's College London, and is currently Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is the author of The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet (2005), and the editor (along with John Woolford and Daniel Karlin) of Browning: Selected Poems (2010).

• Acknowledgements Introduction Note on Terminology and Metrical Marks Music and Metre 'Empty Times' and 'Double Accents': The English Hexameter in Theory and Practice Native Traditions: Anglo-Saxon and Alliterative Verse 'The Accent of Feeling': Towards Free Verse Notes Bibliography Index