The Rise and Fall of Meter
88 chapter 3 commentators) frequently misunderstood rules of Milton’s prosody in Pa ra- dise Lost. As a guide to the young stude ...
Chapter 4: The Discipline of Meter Rather than content himself with this prefatory material, Bridges wanted to circulate these p ...
90 chapter 3 in English based on his study of Milton. Or, as one reviewer heralds, “Mr. Bridges’s ambition, however, goes furthe ...
the institution of meter 91 clarify that stressed rhythm in English makes more sense when we discard the measuring system of Gre ...
92 chapter 3 in writing and revising his account was to correct the tendency to read Milton (and, implicitly, any poet’s meter) ...
the institution of meter 93 verse but the final place you quoted against me [a line]: ‘The infernal serpent on me exercise most. ...
94 chapter 3 nationalists. By proposing a system that reverts to a conception of prosody that existed before the earliest pollut ...
the institution of meter 95 “stress” versus “time,” the very definitions of “accent,” “quantity,” “stress,” and “time” in Englis ...
96 chapter 3 ‘accents’ or something of that sort.”^45 For Saintsbury, the question of English independence was a crucial issue; ...
the institution of meter 97 Saintsbury’s essay, titled simply “English Versification,” is quite possibly the most succinct summa ...
98 chapter 3 labic, etc.) as a separate system that required its own kind of training and its own possibility for mastery. His c ...
the institution of meter 99 bury’s three-volume A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day (1906–1 ...
100 chapter 3 might not admit that we do. Despite the metaphors of stepping-stones, fence posts, and walking to which the word “ ...
the institution of meter 101 The eye, directed by signs that may be visible to all and therefore less interpre- tive, less depen ...
102 chapter 3 But if Saintsbury’s idealized and “natural” English ear is, in fact, a classically trained organ, how does he prom ...
the institution of meter 103 1910, titled coyly, “What Is a Foot?” Here he summarizes his position along military lines once aga ...
104 chapter 3 equivocation and failure in the History, however, reveals deeper insecurity that all prosodic investigations and p ...
the institution of meter 105 away from the turn-of-the-eighteenth-century model: boys between the ages of five and eleven were d ...
106 chapter 3 on the rail arow / expectantly happy” (l. 1) and waiting for the professor to endow them with knowledge. But the ...
the institution of meter 107 grammatical forms was something forced in by the mouth. Even the “eye” sound of “lies/flies” is sti ...
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