Prosody

Prosody is an evolving and complicated discourse in the nineteenth century rather than a unified field. Dealing as it does with both pronunciation and versification, the concept of prosody is related to grammar, classical verse, music and speech, ideas about national origins, and the development of linguistics as a discipline distinct from English literary studies. Despite hundreds of prosodists arguing about how to measure English poetry, Victorian prosody in particular is often misunderstood. There is a vast and unexplored archive of Victorian prosody theory, primed to overturn many assumptions about the development of poetic genres and forms.