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Title: Iambic tetrameters the Nabokov way
Review: A bit too long and deep for it's misleading title, NOTES ON PROSODY remains influential in the continuing study of English and Russian poetry. Nabokov's ideas about "scudded feet" and "tilts," while not adopted into the orthodoxy on scansion, are still read widely by the folks who study it, folks whose bibliographies led me to this little volume. It's worth a read, especially if one would like a witty, concise survey of the iambic tetrameter in English or a study of Pushkin's deployment of it in EUGENE ONEGIN.Those who arrive here as fans of VN's novels should steer instead towards SPEAK, MEMORY (his autobio) or LECTURES ON LITERATURE for their Nabokovian non-fiction. Imagine a joke written in French here. Happy hunting!
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