The Rise and Fall of Meter
8 introduction were “expected to inculcate in the nation’s children a proper sense of patriotic moral responsibility,”^16 I argu ...
introduction 9 most of the literate, a triumph of the forces of irregularity, and the wits who returned from France upon the res ...
10 introduction civilize Indian subjects earlier in the century, the “Poor Man’s classics” of En- glish literature were called u ...
introduction 11 book’s argument is presented in three parts, made up of two chapters each. Each part includes a discussion of th ...
12 introduction that mirrored the earlier distinction between English and classical poetry. Chapter 3, “The Institution of Meter ...
introduction 13 and not at all stable, I argue in chapter 5 that the modernist account of meter at the turn of the twentieth cen ...
14 introduction Alice Meynell’s poems, “The English Metres” and “The Laws of Verse,” calling for a reexamination of metrical cul ...
introduction 15 Dennis Taylor’s Hardy’s Metres and Victorian Prosody (1988), A. A. Markley’s Stateliest Measures: Tennyson and t ...
16 < 1 > The History of Meter When this, this little group their country calls From academic shades and learned halls, To ...
the history of meter 17 which (as the epigraph to this chapter states) “academic shades and learned halls” will “fix the laws” o ...
18 chapter 1 in pronunciation. Because their idea of proper speech was so ingrained, En- field and Walker eschewed a system for ...
the history of meter 19 stories about Latin exercises as punishment and bemoaned the rigors of scan- sion, yet the bout-rimé was ...
20 chapter 1 chronolog y. Hundreds of “metrical histories” appeared in the nineteenth cen- tury. These “metrical histories”were ...
the history of meter 21 with alliteration on either side of the caesura), the dactyls of the subtitle regu- late the following a ...
22 chapter 1 vessels for transmission. With pedagogic simplicity at the forefront, Burt ad- vertises that in a mere hour, his me ...
the history of meter 23 astonishing success,^11 these were histories first, and poems second, if at all. The very fact of histor ...
24 chapter 1 rather, phonemes, stand for numbers which, in turn, make up dates in a his- torical chronolog y. Grey’s Memoria Tec ...
Figure 1. Illustration of the “artificial memory” method, applied to the regents of England. Richard Grey. Memoria Technica; or, ...
26 chapter 1 out disgust, a benefit of some importance would be conferred on the rising a g e .”^16 Rather than rely on artifici ...
the history of meter 27 ter (he had already attempted to simplify Latin grammar and would later go on to simplify Greek grammar) ...
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