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On The Use Of Classical Metres In English
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Author : William Johnson Stone
language : en
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Release Date : 1899
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On The Use Of Classical Metres In English By W J Stone
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Author : William Johnson Stone
language : en
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Release Date : 1898
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On The Use Of Classical Metres In English Classic Reprint
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Author : William Johnson Stone
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-07-20
On The Use Of Classical Metres In English Classic Reprint written by William Johnson Stone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Excerpt from On the Use of Classical Metres in English The object of this paper will be an attempt to realize a dream, which has I suppose at one time or another been present to most of us, that classical metres might find a place in our language not merely distantly similar to that which they held in Latin and Greek, but really and actually the same, governed by rules equally strict and perfect, and producing on the ear the same pure delight. Every one who has tried has failed. Either he has thrown quantity to the winds and written lines which resemble their models only in the number of the syllables and the exaggerated beat of the verse. Or he has felt himself so trammelled by rules of quantity that he has modified them and produced a hybrid which has the merits of neither. Or finally - and rarely - he has written perfect quantitative verse, but has been so hampered by English rules of accent that his writings have hardly reached one hundred lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
On The Use Of Classical Metres In English
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Author : William Johnon Stone
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-08-02
On The Use Of Classical Metres In English written by William Johnon Stone and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-02 with categories.
An excerpt from Chapter I. Rhythm and Metre If you pronounce these two sentences: "She told me she was sixteen years of age," and "She said her age was just sixteen," you will almost certainly pronounce "sixteen" with the accent on "six" in the first case and on "-teen" in the second. So when you say "That judgment was unjust," you put a marked accent on the final syllable of the adjective, but when you speak of "the parable of the unjust steward," you probably give its two syllables nearly equal weight. There are many other English words whose accentuation varies according to circumstances, and the reason is that we instinctively try to speak rhythmically. Before we can understand the structure of English verse we must pay some attention to the nature and workings of this instinct, for verse is only an elaboration and refinement of our instinctive mode of expression; and before we can enter upon even this examination, we must ask ourselves what is rhythm? Rhythm may be roughly defined as a recurrence of similar phenomena at regular intervals of time. No word less general than phenomena would suffice for the purposes of definition. The rhythm of verse or music, to be sure, is commonly found in the recurrence of similar sounds; but these are special cases, and sound is not essential to rhythm. A deaf man can see the rhythm of a pendulum, and indeed a man deprived of all five senses could feel the rhythmic swaying of a railway train. But while in the first part of the definition it is safest to be vague, in the last part it is necessary to be insistently specific. Regularity of time-intervals is a sine qua non of rhythm. The fact needs no proof, for it is obvious; but it deserves some emphasis, because many persons have never observed it, and it is a fundamental principle in the whole theory of verse. Now to rhythm in this sense we have an instinctive leaning. When you drive a nail, you swing your hammer rhythmically. When you walk or run, your steps are rhythmical, and you would find it very disagreeable to walk in any other way. Your respiration, the movement of your jaw in chewing, and that of your hands when you rub down after a bath, or when you brush your teeth,-all are rhythmical. Students of the subject who are sentimentally inclined have noted also the rhythms of inanimate nature, in the ocean billows, the swaying of trees, the revolution of the earth, and the processes of the suns; and they have seen in all these phenomena one of the mysterious harmonies of the universe. There is indeed much suggestion here for philosophy and for poetry, but an elementary scientific explanation of our human instinct will suffice for present purposes. Such an explanation, of course, is found in the principle of economy. The reason why we walk rhythmically is that the momentum of the body would make an unrhythmical gait comparatively laborious. We strike rhythmical blows with a hammer because we can do so almost automatically. There is here no apparent economy of physical force, but there is a great economy of attention. We can breathe irregularly without any special muscular effort, but as soon as we stop thinking about it our chests begin to move rhythmically again.
On The Use Of Classical Metres
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Author : William Johnson D. 1901 Stone
language : en
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Release Date : 2016-08-28
On The Use Of Classical Metres written by William Johnson D. 1901 Stone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-28 with History categories.
Classical Metres In English Poetry
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Author : William Ralph Inge
language : en
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Classical Metres
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Author : William Johnson Stone
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02-09
Classical Metres written by William Johnson Stone and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Excerpt from Classical Metres: In English Verse OF this book the first part, my own, has happily outlived its prefaces: it began as a simple tabulation of Milton's practice in Faradixe Lost, tq which an account of the prosody of Samson Agoflixte: was added, and in 1893 eight appendices or notes on various points. To this I now (1901) add an analysis of stress-prosody, and a chapter on the structure of the English accentual hexameter, My intention throughout has been to provide a sound foundation for a grammar of English prosody, on the basis of Milton's practice, which is chosen not as the final model, but as a con venient norma, a middle and fixed point, to which all other practice may be referred for comparison. I believe that little beyond what I have written is necessary for the purpose pr0posed: if I Were tempted to add anything, it would be the examination of Chaucer's prosody, which in his part of the Romaxmt of tlae Raye would, compared with the French orig inal, show the origin and rationale of our traditional elisions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Well Weighed Syllables
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Author : Derek Attridge
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1975-03-28
Well Weighed Syllables written by Derek Attridge and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-03-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sidney's statement in his Apology for Poetry that quantitative verse on the Latin model is more suitable than the accentual verse of the English tradition 'lively to express divers passions, by the low and lofty sound of the well-weighed syllable' is only one of numerous assertions of the superiority of classical over native metres made by English scholars and poets during the Renaissance, stretching from Roger Ascham some twenty years earlier to Ben Jonson some fifty years later.
Classical Metres In English Verse
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Author : William Johnson Stone
language : en
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Release Date : 1901
Classical Metres In English Verse written by William Johnson Stone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with English language categories.
Classical Metres In English
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Author : Thomas Ewing
language : en
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Release Date : 1932*
Classical Metres In English written by Thomas Ewing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932* with English language categories.