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Meter in poetry : A new theory

Fabb wrote the first versions of the three chapters on English, and the chapters on Sanskrit, Greek, Arabic and the final chapter (except Hebrew section). Halle wrote the first versions of the chapters on French and Latvian and Hebrew section of final chapter. Piera wrote the first version of chapter on Southern Romance. Fabb and Halle revised and reworked the book together over several years. Fabb took overall responsibility for the final version of the book.

This is a completely new generative linguistic theory of poetic metre, the result of a project initiated in 2000 with Morris Halle, who invented generative metrics in the 1960s. It uses original-language textual materials from poetry in English, French, Greek, Sanskrit, and Arabic (and others), and has the broadest spread of any previous theoretical book on poetic metre. It offers the first unified linguistic account of all types of Ancient Greek metrical verse, and the first of a range of Classical Sanskrit metres; both are accounted for within a theoretical model which also accounts for English metrical verse.