A Study of Metre - Couverture rigide

OMOND, T.S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0742640809 ISBN 13 : 9780742640801

Editeur : Alexander Moring, 1907

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Modern English prosody dates from Coleridge sdictum, in the preface to Christabel (1816), that not the syllables but the accents of his lines were to be reckoned. This remark of a great master cannot have been intended to give a complete theory. It says nothing about the arrangement of these accents, which is at least as vital as the fact of their occurrence. Probably he assumed their order of succession as obvious. This order, however, has been ignored by very many of his successors, who speak as if mere casual recurrence of accents sufl ced to constitute verse. Thus, for example, our ordinary heroic line is often said to be a line carrying five stresses, as though that were in itself distinctive. But the same description applies to many a prose sentence. Prosody is bound to furnish a criterion distinguishing verse from prose. Coleridge snew principle, as he called it new to the critics of his This name belongs to the best-known of all our lines, containing normally ten syllables, used by Shakespeare in his plays, Milton in Paradise Lost, Pope in his Essays and Satires. It may be rhymed or rhymeless, in blank verse, couplet, or stanza.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alexander Moring
• Date d'édition: 1907
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0742640809
• ISBN 13: 9780742640801
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
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