The Heartbeat of Poetry: Meter
Saturday April 8th, 2017, 10:30-3:30
Columbia University, Knox Hall, room 208
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The workshop is sponsored by the South Asia Institute and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University. It is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. Registration will be possible starting one month before the workshop:

*REGISTRATION FORM*

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Workshop schedule:
10:00-10:30 coffee
10:30-12:30: Hindi and Urdu metrical forms -- an overview
12:30-1:30: lunch
1:30-3:30: Hindi and Urdu metrical forms -- more examples, illustrations, discussion
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Where would we be without poetry? And where would poetry be without meter?

SELECTED MATERIALS FOR THE WORKSHOP

Packets will be available in hard-copy form at the workshop itself, and in pdf form right here:
*WORKSHOP PACKET* 
(NOTE: our packets will be double-sided; if you prefer single-sided, you might want to print one out for yourself)

GENERAL STUDY MATERIALS

==*A Textbook of Urdu Prosody and Rhetoric*, by G. D. Pybus (1924)

=="Chapter XIII: Prosody" from *A Grammar of the Hindi Language*, by S. H. Kellogg (1938)

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*A Practical Handbook of Urdu Meter*, by F. W. Pritchett and Khaliq Ahmad Khaliq (1987)

== "Part II: Prosody," from *The Hindi Classical Tradition: a Braj Bhasa Reader*, by Rupert Snell (1991), pp. 19-28

==*Metrics Workshop Handout*, by Dalpat Rajpurohit and Allison Busch (2017)

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Questions or problems: <fp7@columbia.edu>
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