Well-Weighed Syllables

Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres

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Derek Attridge

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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, stretching from Roger Ascham some twenty years earlier to Ben Jonson some fifty years later.

Release date Australia

December 6th, 1979

Author

Derek Attridge

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

268

Dimensions

139x216x17

ISBN-13

9780521297226

Product ID

2837725

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