Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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... written not later than July , 1628 , and in it Milton says that the material is better suited to a ' poetical exercise ' than to a ' contest of rhetoric ' . Professor Tillyard attempts to show that the poems ' belong to the summer of ...
... written not later than July , 1628 , and in it Milton says that the material is better suited to a ' poetical exercise ' than to a ' contest of rhetoric ' . Professor Tillyard attempts to show that the poems ' belong to the summer of ...
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... written as one . The only difference is that here there is a compression of elements as in the shortened lines in the choruses in Samson Agonistes , while in a pure sonnet a decision has been made that each rhyme shall be five stresses ...
... written as one . The only difference is that here there is a compression of elements as in the shortened lines in the choruses in Samson Agonistes , while in a pure sonnet a decision has been made that each rhyme shall be five stresses ...
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... written according to the ancients ' principles of quantitative verse . The attempts to do so in English had died out many years earlier . Gabriel Harvey , Spenser and Sidney had been the chief persons inter- ested . But Spenser ...
... written according to the ancients ' principles of quantitative verse . The attempts to do so in English had died out many years earlier . Gabriel Harvey , Spenser and Sidney had been the chief persons inter- ested . But Spenser ...
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