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Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres

by Derek Attridge

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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''... Read more
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. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.51 X 0.59 in
Print pages268
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date December 6, 1979
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521205306
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Derek Attridge
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Derek Attridge is the author or editor of over twenty books, whose work has been translated into a number of languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Italian, and Polish. His publica...

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