The Rise and Fall of Meter
28 chapter 1 rulers, its folk communities, and vernacular poetic forms. But the trend to ver- sify England’s history appealed to ...
Chapter 2: The Stigma of Meter The humorous magazines of Cambridge and Oxford provided Dibdin with the early training necessary ...
30 chapter 1 mostly by its couplets, to connect the phases of England’s history to one an- other: “Thus Smithfield flames, as eq ...
the history of meter 31 invasion of England by Railroads in the nineteenth century,” the “Roman yoke” and the railways both inva ...
32 chapter 1 were largely outnumbered by the more approachable and teachable metrical histories in the late nineteenth century. ...
the history of meter 33 connected to higher learning, even if many of the histories go to great pains to avoid the judgment that ...
34 chapter 1 did the English grammar book attempt to consolidate English usage in order to organize an idea of the English empir ...
the history of meter 35 Some of this uncertainty was evident in the construction of grammar books and the place of prosody, mete ...
36 chapter 1 The standardizing projects of the eighteenth century and the conservatism and classicism that we associate with the ...
the history of meter 37 troversies over Anglo-Saxon meter and also foreshadows the ways that Anglo- Saxon “rhythm” would be revi ...
38 chapter 1 cians”—Joseph Priestley, William Ward, Charles Coote, and Lindley Mur- ray—adopt the Latin model for grammar, their ...
the history of meter 39 verse” (“usually used in heroic poetry intermixed with lines of ten syllables”), and “elegiac” (which co ...
40 chapter 1 the caesura, and “tone,” which is increasingly associated with affect. By 1867, the fifty-sixth edition of the Gram ...
the history of meter 41 printing of formulations that stress instinct in performance, holding onto the shadow of elocution and p ...
42 chapter 1 is upon the knowledge and right application of these powers, that the pleasure and effect of numbers chiefly depend ...
the history of meter 43 century comparative philolog y on the continent had a profound impact on the study of the English langua ...
44 chapter 1 doctrine among our prosodists would indicate, there can be no great hope of any scheme entirely satisfactory to the ...
the history of meter 45 of and arguments over the definitions of terms were all part of prosodic dis- course in the nineteenth c ...
46 chapter 1 In the late twentieth century, Dennis Taylor brought attention to the ex- plosion of scholarship about meter in the ...
the history of meter 47 in the marks of Christ’s nature and in the marks that man makes on his poems. Poets like Hopkins and Bri ...
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