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Well-Weighed Syllables

Elizabethan Verse In Classical Metres

by Derek Attridge
language: english
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, December of 1979 ‧
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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' is only one of numerous assertions of the superiority of classical over native metres made by English scholars and poets during the Renaissance.

Well-Weighed Syllables

Elizabethan Verse In Classical Metres

by Derek Attridge

Property Description
ISBN: 9780521297226
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December of 1979
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 268
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780521297226