... had little cause to theorize vernacular prosody at a time when English was a second choice to Latin in literary culture. From the seventh to the mid-sixteenth century in England, ars metrica and ars poetica referred exclusively to Latin meter and were almost always composed in the Latin language...

...C. Grant Loomis Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 AMPHIBRACH : A FOOTNOTE TO SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN PROSODY By C. GRANTLOOMIS Trisyllabic metrical feet in German poetry from...

...Andrea Brady Abstract Milton’s elegy for Edward King was widely admired and imitated in the eighteenth century. These imitations tend to celebrate the poem as an ornamental, musical work while suppressing its politics. By contrast, Samuel Johnson recognized that the poem’s prosody and its generic...

... intellectual engagement with the work of Henry Hallam. Barrett Browning’s remarks in the margins of Hallam’s books and in a historiographical essay of her own reveal a poet thinking about her craft in the context of a transnational history of poetry. Barrett Browning’s idiosyncratic prosody becomes another...

...Figure 4. George Saintsbury, footnote on “A Musical Instrument.” From A History of English Prosody ( 1910 ) ...

... prosody out of its sleepy ways and making progress rapidly. The most striking difference between the old way of scanning and the new was the difference between two stresses and four, and it appeared as a result that English prosody would have to be “redefined.” One could say: “If poetry...

... of traditionally marginalized literatures such as those of the African American vernacular tradition. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 Langston Hughes historical poetics cognitive poetics prosody African American vernacular Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen might be remembered...

...Ben Glaser Ben Glaser is assistant professor of English at Yale University. His work has appeared in Victorian Poetry and is forthcoming in PMLA and Papers in Language and Literature . His current book project, Modernism’s Metronome , studies modern poetry’s historical prosody...

... and thus perpetuates the key problem. 11 The group’s importance to the revival of scholarly interest in meter deserves special note. Prins suggests that, as the study of genre has benefited from the recovery of obscured reading practices, so historical prosody should recover obscured metrical...

...  Performing a New France Press, 2012. 274 pp. At the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Bridges made newspaper head- lines with Milton’s Prosody for attempting to renovate England’s increasingly simplified notions of meter by justifying the supposed...

...  Performing a New France Press, 2012. 274 pp. At the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Bridges made newspaper head- lines with Milton’s Prosody for attempting to renovate England’s increasingly simplified notions of meter by justifying the supposed...

.... At the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Bridges made newspaper head- lines with Milton’s Prosody for attempting to renovate England’s increasingly simplified notions of meter by justifying the supposed inconsistencies in John Milton’s verse. Bridges...

.... By Meredith Martin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University  Performing a New France Press, 2012. 274 pp. At the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Bridges made newspaper head- lines with Milton’s Prosody for attempting to renovate England’s increasingly...

.... By Meredith Martin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University  Performing a New France Press, 2012. 274 pp. At the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Bridges made newspaper head- lines with Milton’s Prosody for attempting to renovate England’s increasingly...

.... At the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Bridges made newspaper head- lines with Milton’s Prosody for attempting to renovate England’s increasingly simplified notions of meter by justifying the supposed inconsistencies in John Milton’s verse. Bridges...

... of reasons in support of this judgment. “Hardy is too fragmentary.” “He came too late to perfect any of the traditional forms of poetry. He has made no real contribu- tion to English prosody. . . .” His “failure fully to grasp the significance of ideas deprives his poetry of . . . cohesiveness...

... of writing these early texts had radically changed or the prosody of the text was unlike that of later English verse. And unimagined was the possibility that neither the conventions nor the prosody fit their way of seeing Anglo-Saxon verse text. Both, in fact, did not. The meter was different...

... is created by the grammar and lexicon of the language, the sound by segmental and suprasegmental phonemes whose qualities do not bear on the linguistic meaning. This sound, organized in poetry by both the grammar and the prosody, is com- monly referred to as the music.’ The notion that two...

.... Sammlung Dalp, Bd. 21. Bern: A. Francke, 1946. Pp. 118. s.fr. 4.60. This short prosody, free from the usual academic clarification of the subject and vividly written, is not only intended as an introduction for the student and the beginner, but also for the lover of literature in general...