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Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Derek Attridge
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:268
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary studies - general
ISBN/Barcode 9780521297226
ClassificationsDewey:821.309
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 6 December 1979
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.