By taking Hartman’s Scansion Machine as a point of departure, I would like to share my working survey of digital prosody projects and prosody-related visualization methodologies below. Prosody is a part of the conversations I am hoping to accommodate, and that is why I am curious to learn how digital technologies might have informed the epistemologies of prosody to date.
As a part of my dissertation research, I am working with literary scholars and archivists to facilitate critical dialogues on literary artifacts including audio and audiovisual recordings of poetry readings one project includes a digital platform for Robert Frost. To be fair, my field is also not strictly in stylistics or in prosody, but in information science and textual scholarship.
So one of the first large computer projects I undertook was a Scansion Machine. But one of my fields has been prosody: the study of poetic meter and rhythms. Poet and early computer-based prosody pioneer Charles Hartman notes a similar sentiment in his autobiographical Virtual Muse (1996):Ī search of the catalog in a big library turns up quite a few cross-references between “computers” and “poetry.” But virtually all of the books and articles referred to have to do with “computer stylistics.” That is, they’re documents in the field of literary criticism, and they represent endeavours to study poetry by means of computers, not experiments in making poetry with computers. What are the historical and existing efforts to employ digital technologies for exploring or generating prosody? It turns out, digital technologies seem to have contributed more to the analysis of prosody than to the composition of metrical verse in English.
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