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Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres

Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres

Attridge, Derek
Attridge
Attridge, D.

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Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521297222
ISBN13: 9780521297226
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 6 1979
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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