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Raymond Dexter Havens. tions contains as many as twenty pieces which employ the meter , style , and diction of Paradise Lost.1 3 It may be partly as a result of this early reading that Miltonic allusions rose so naturally to the lips ...
Raymond Dexter Havens. tions contains as many as twenty pieces which employ the meter , style , and diction of Paradise Lost.1 3 It may be partly as a result of this early reading that Miltonic allusions rose so naturally to the lips ...
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... meter of Milton's translation of Horace's ode to Pyrrha – were not uncommon after 1740.4 Critics and writers on prosody also assailed rime . John Mason , 1 Laws of Poetry ( 1721 ) , 69. Cf. the Examen Miscellaneum ( 1702 , attributed to ...
... meter of Milton's translation of Horace's ode to Pyrrha – were not uncommon after 1740.4 Critics and writers on prosody also assailed rime . John Mason , 1 Laws of Poetry ( 1721 ) , 69. Cf. the Examen Miscellaneum ( 1702 , attributed to ...
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... meter it opposed but of the one it favored . The greatest accomplishment was , indeed , a gradual clarifying of ideas in regard to prosody , a bringing to the consciousness of both readers and versifiers the exist- ence of problems ...
... meter it opposed but of the one it favored . The greatest accomplishment was , indeed , a gradual clarifying of ideas in regard to prosody , a bringing to the consciousness of both readers and versifiers the exist- ence of problems ...
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... [ meter ] requires the fourth syllable to be emphatic , and the two concluding feet to be perfect iambics , " af- firmed the Monthly Review . Even Isaac Watts , who invoked the " Adventurous Muse " and lauded Milton as " our Deliverer ...
... [ meter ] requires the fourth syllable to be emphatic , and the two concluding feet to be perfect iambics , " af- firmed the Monthly Review . Even Isaac Watts , who invoked the " Adventurous Muse " and lauded Milton as " our Deliverer ...
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... meter of Prior and Swift ) , but there are also frank expressions of dis- satisfaction with the neo - classic prosody . One of the earlier and more interesting of these is in the preface to Prior's Solomon ( 1718 ) , where we read ...
... meter of Prior and Swift ) , but there are also frank expressions of dis- satisfaction with the neo - classic prosody . One of the earlier and more interesting of these is in the preface to Prior's Solomon ( 1718 ) , where we read ...
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