The Rise and Fall of Meter
68 chapter 2 verses could convert the whole of Britain—Bran (“crow” in Welsh) the Blessed was reputed to have brought Christiani ...
the stigma of meter 69 sions of his letters, Hopkins underscores for emphasis (a kind of reverse metri- cal bar below the poem), ...
70 chapter 2 that “the English accent is emphatic accent, is stress: it commonly includes clear pitch, but essentially it is str ...
the stigma of meter 71 ences that constitute the inscape of the English language. For Hopkins, if read- ers could appreciate the ...
72 chapter 2 do not see the way to do it at present” (186). But this is precisely the problem: Patmore wants to hear the alliter ...
the stigma of meter 73 semantic, and pathetic labor—Hopkins shows that it is there, ready to be per- ceived and to flow, as inst ...
74 chapter 2 (1838, 1882). This interest was stirred by Benjamin Thorpe’s translation into English of R. K. Rask’s Grammar of th ...
the stigma of meter 75 embodiment or incarnation or manmuse of the country, of Dorset, of rustic life and humanity. . . . His rh ...
76 chapter 2 performance is not reading with the eye but loud, leisurely, poetical (not rhe- torical) recitation, with long rest ...
the stigma of meter 77 If we read Hopkins’s metrical practice as a wavering between seeing the mark’s meaning immediately (Chris ...
78 chapter 2 Hopkins’s metrical experiments were not ahead of his time; on the con- trary, they place him firmly amid the Victor ...
79 < 3 > The Institution of Meter It has been said that our English rhythms are governed by accent; I, moreover, believe t ...
80 chapter 3 English literature that challenged the sciences and displaced the classics as the proper discipline of study for an ...
the institution of meter 81 Though he failed to influence a large reading public with his new ap- proaches to poetic form until ...
82 chapter 3 its urgent wings / Or, if she deign her wisdom she doth show / She hath intel- ligence of heavenly things / Unsulli ...
the institution of meter 83 Milton produced both accentual and syllabic verse experiments. From the be- ginning of his poetic ca ...
84 chapter 3 As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding Stirr ...
the institution of meter 85 and considerations of metrical mastery. In Bridges’s interpretation, he is not observing the mastere ...
86 chapter 3 other pieces, where the mastery is so complete.”^20 It is as if Bridges does not want to admit that he does not yet ...
the institution of meter 87 forms: “sum’d in a word.” This metrical alphabet is neither poor, nor simple, nor foolish, and it is ...
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