Augustan measures : Restoration and eighteenth-century writings on prosody and metre
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Augustan measures : Restoration and eighteenth-century writings on prosody and metre
(Studies in early modern English literature)
Ashgate, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A comprehensive survey of Restoration and 18th-century writings on metre and poetic form. The study focuses mainly on the debates caused by the perceived differences between the couplet and blank verse, and provides a survey of the techniques and findings of our 17th- and 18th-century precursors. The volume discusses 16th- and early 17th-century writings on metre as the background to the 18th-century debates; the conflicting and often confusing theories forwarded by later 17th- and 18th-century critics; the contributions of the Prescriptive and Elocutionist critics; and rhyme and blank verse. At the end Bradford concentrates upon how and why the blank verse of Milton and his 18th-century successors raised particular questions for contemporary critics.
Table of Contents
- The critical debate up to Bysshe's "Art of English Poetry" (1702)
- Stress, accent, quantity and the composition of the pentameter
- The prescriptive criticism
- The elocution movement and the critical work of Thomas Sheridan
- The elocution movement and the destruction of form
- The theory of rhyme, and poetic genres
- Form and meaning in blank verse. Appendices: Dryden's connection with the preface to Joshua Poole's English Parnassus
- "Rhyme" and "rime" in Paradise Lost.
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