Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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... poet . Yet it persists , and cannot be disregarded by a writer who seeks an audience to a study of the theory of such an art . One school of opinion emphasizes the psychological impediment to composition which arises for the poet if he ...
... poet . Yet it persists , and cannot be disregarded by a writer who seeks an audience to a study of the theory of such an art . One school of opinion emphasizes the psychological impediment to composition which arises for the poet if he ...
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... poet may not be considering line by line whether to write in trochees or dactyls as such ; but he is obliged to decide whether or not he will use trochees and dactyls , and the result of that decision will represent a law in his prosody ...
... poet may not be considering line by line whether to write in trochees or dactyls as such ; but he is obliged to decide whether or not he will use trochees and dactyls , and the result of that decision will represent a law in his prosody ...
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... poet ) Now even if our critics could prove that elision is ( let us say ) physiologically impossible it would not follow that its use by poets as a mental figment ( so to call it ) is completely uninten- tional . In the case of Milton ...
... poet ) Now even if our critics could prove that elision is ( let us say ) physiologically impossible it would not follow that its use by poets as a mental figment ( so to call it ) is completely uninten- tional . In the case of Milton ...
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