Contents: Zsuzanna Bjorn Andersen: The Concept of "Lyric Disorder;" James Bailey: The Metrical Invariant in a Russian Lyric Folk Song; Jerzy Bartminski: On Melic and Declamatory Versions of Folk Songs; L. L. Bel'skah: Iz istorii dvustopnykh form russkikh trekhslozhnikov; Thomas Eekman: Verbal Interposition as a Stylistic Device in Russian Poetry; Stefano Gardzonio: Stikh russkikh poeticheskikh perevodov ital'ianskikh opernyx libretto. XVIII vek; M. L. Gasparov: Stroficheskii ritm v russkom 4-stopnom iambe i khoree; Geir Kjetsaa: The Relationship of High-Frequency Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives to Meters and Genres in the Age of Pushkin; Emily Klenin: Vocabulary Distribution and Genre Differentiation in Fet; Marina Abramovna Krasnoperova: Modelirovanie protsessa stikhxoslozheniia po veroiatnostnym parametram (na materiale chetyrekhstopnogo iamba M. V. Lomonosova); Rah Kuncheva: Sintagma i ritm 4-st. iamba (Lomonosov, Pushkin); Ian K. Lilly: The Russian Iambic 4343aBaB-Stanza Lyric: An Outline History; S. A. Matiash: Russkii vol'nyi stikh v sravnenii s frantsuzskim i nemetskim i problema tipologii russkogo vol'nogo iamba XVIII-XIX vv.; David Lee Powelstock: The Rhythmic Structure of Valerij Brjusov's 3-Stress Dol'nik Line; Liutsillia Pshcholovska: Stikh perevodnoi i natsional'noi literatury (Na materiale perevodov iz russkoi poezii); Daniel Rancour-Laferriere: Further Remarks on the Teleology of Metrical Rhythm; Omri Ronen: Dva poliusa paranomazii; Barry P. Scherr: The Verse Practice of Vladimir Benediktov; Michael Shapiro: The Meaning of Meter; J. Thomas Shaw: Horizontal Enrichment and Rhyme Theory for Studying the Poetry of Pushkin, Batjushkov, and Baratynskij; G. S. Smith: The Versification of Joseph Brodsky's Kellomiaki; K. F. Taranovskij: Shestistopnyi iamb Lomonosova; Marina Tarlinskaja: Formulas in Russian and English Verse; Walter Vickery: On the Incidence of the Attributive Adjective in Lermontov's Poetry; K. D. Viwnevskij: Raznoobrazie formy russkogo soneta; Ronald Vroon: Prosody and Poetic Sequences; Dean S. Worth: Phraseology as a Clue to Metrical Structure. Evidence from the Russian Funeral Lament; A. L. Zhovtis: Problema formal'nogo analoga v stikhotvornom perevode (Stikh angliiski i russkii).

"Indeed, this volume is more than the sum of its many and excellent parts, and it is not just for metrists: it is emphatically a book for all scholars of Russian verse." (SR)

"Der reichhaltige Sammelband vermittelt einen recht genauen Einblick in den im einzelnen sehr unterschiedlichen Stand der russischen Versforschung. (KL)