...D. W. Cummings; John Herum Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 METRICAL BOUNDARIES AND RHYTHM-PHRASES By D. W. CUMMINGSand JOHN HERUM The perception of metrical effects depends upon set expectations in the mind of a reader...

... serve the aesthetic critic very well; but it reflects a variety of preciousness which the literary historian or the student of comparative literature can ill afford. Aside from a certain professorial repetitiousness of phrase, Sells writes charm- ingly, with zest for his subject...

... culmination and inaugural disruption. In Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained the phrase much revolving becomes iconic of revolution as period-defining movement. Milton’s characters pivot, roll, twist, contort, resist, and return. In doing so, they show, and not simply describe, the lived experience...

... William Tyndale a literary endeavor. In The Confutation More repeated and playfully dilated his opponent’s choicest phrases. In so doing, he sought to show the evil in Tyndale’s lexical pictures. The English were to reject both More’s religion and his account of natural language, while the evangelical...

...-is “means” intended?) ; and “up the spout” meaning “pregnant” (p. 206). Thousands of verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, phrases, sentences, and proverbs (each in a separate category) are classified in ninety- nine sections, beginning with “Gedanke, Aufmerksamkeit, Neugierde” and ending...

... of thoughts on the subjects touched upon in the famous soliloquy and wove their phrases into his texture, shap- ing and adjusting the product with his own inimitable skill. It is, of course, untenable to imagine that there is a source or modifying influence for every line in Hamlet’s speech...

... of sinful Mankinds himself: * The phrase “clichCs of courtly love” is Manning’s (“Game and Earnest in the Middle English and Provencal Love Lyrics,” CL, 18 [ 19661: 239), but Moore also objected to the nature preludes as “hopelessly stereoty ed” and added that they “came to serve a deco- rative...

... accompany the play; and who would act in it, though a list of the cast might be given fully or partially or, sometimes, only generally by the phrase: “to be acted to the Best Advantage.” In addition, the advertisements sometimes named the author of the drama. It is with the announcements...

...- terfield’s position is clear. The language of the lower classes is, of course, to be avoided because it is full of barbarisms, solecisms, mis- pronunciations, and vulgar words and phrases, all of which are the marks of “a low turn of mind, low education, and low company.”ll Nor will the language...

... for him-indicates an extraordinary tolerance toward these f oreignisms. Swift himself uses French words and phrases freely in his poetical works, and scores of them appear in his private correspondence. Occasionally he employs a word in a way that suggests a preference for a French as against...

... picture’’ is much closer to Plutarch’s “articu- late painting” than to Hor:;e’s “ut pictura poesis,” and Horace’s phrase is “aut prodesse uut delectare, not ct . . . et. 573 574 Sidney’s Two Definitions of Poetry This formal statement is followed...

... prosodic model, in the more personal, emotionally charged poems of Le Fou Creeley follows the modernist’s example of using line breaks within phrases to chart emotionally telling pauses and shifts in intonation. Adapted to Cree- ley’s voice, the tense pauses register moments of almost...

... try to “naturalize” in the text according to the precepts of the Pleiade, do, however, seem to be peculiar to him. The only latinism which appears to be original with Du Bartas is daedale ( < daedalus, ‘artful, industrious’) in the phrase la duedale nature (Arche 302) .12 Daedale, dkdale...

... of dramatic tragedy in general, ofMacbeth, and of this speech [I.vii.1-28-“If it were done when ’tis done”] in particular is summed up in the phrase “pity, like a naked new-born babe / Striding the blast.” The phrase is vivid, particular, and in- tensely visual; and-if only...

... on the whole endeavored to replace Icelandic idioms with English idioms rather than to translate literally, but their translations differ from Dasent’s. For example, the phrase en bat mlcn Jd Mar reymst, which Dasent renders “But that will be put to the proof by and by,” they translate...

... this peculiar lack of well organized meaning to Pound’s failure to imagine and instill an appropriate objective correlative, to borrow T. S. Eliot’s phrase, for his work. Pound, Blackmur states, “is not looking for an objective form to express or communicate what he knows.” Blackmur concedes...

...) with endings, phrases, and syntax of another language, usually Latin or Greek, to create a comic or burlesque effect. Although there are earlier examples, macaronics in this strict sense became fashionable, and acquired their name, in Italy in the late fif- teenth and early sixteenth centuries...

... phrases and themes.‘ In 1686, two years before the first edition of the Caructkres, Longepierre had published a ParuZZkZe de Monsieur Coriaeille et dc Monsieur Rucine. La Bruyitre did indeed borrow from this essay, but his indebtedness to Longepierre should not be exaggerated. It will be seen...

... him, but always explaining, qualifying, or amplifying one of “the phrases by which Arnold is best known,” Eliot announces himself the literary executor of, if not the heir to, the last great critic (“Perfect Critic,” 2). The terms of Woolfs own preoccupation with Arnold point...

... the strength to confront, to defy, and perhaps to synthesize these contraries of creation and dissolution. By building a house on the shore, writing a poem, one can “occupy spaces,” as Swingle has hauntingly phrased it, “wherein the persistence of alternatives seems to offer promise of the soul’s...