Well-Weighed Syllables

Well-Weighed Syllables Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521297226
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 268
Weight: 350g
Height: 217mm
Width: 142mm
Spine width: 17mm