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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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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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Paperback. Etat : New. Print on Demand. This book explores the evolution of English prosody from Coleridge to Sidney Lanier and beyond, reassessing the role of time in our understanding of poetic structure. The author dissects the concept of rhythm as a steady recurrence of equal units and argues that for English verse, this unit is the periodâ"a measure of time, not syllables, that can either be filled by the sound of words or left empty as a pause. Challenging views that locate the basis of English verse in accentuation, this study demonstrates that temporal regularity is its underlying principle, its essential and defining quality. Establishing a new foundation for understanding the dynamics of English meter, this book presents a cogent and compelling theory of verse structure. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781331922803_0
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