Well-Weighed Syllables : Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521297222
ISBN-13
9780521297226
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 6th, 1979
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
348 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.20 x 1.70 cms
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Literary studies: general
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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.
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