... Revolution. University of Washington 2009 Noel Jackson is associate professor of literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry (2008) and of other essays in late-eighteenth-century and Romantic literary culture. Rhyme...

... Studies . He is author of two forthcoming books, Spenser's International Style and Virgil in the Renaissance . The French Aesthetic of Spenser’s Feminine Rhyme David Scott Wilson-Okamura ne of Edmund Spenser’s greatest experiments, which does not Oseem like an experiment anymore...

... in the Fourteenth Century (1991). He is a longtime admirer, but not a close relative, of William K. Wimsatt Jr. Rhyme/Reason, Chaucer/Pope, Icon/Symbol James I. Wimsatt ince Chaucer and Pope made the most celebrated uses of decasyl- Slabic couplets in English, the comparison...

...W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 ONE RELATION OF RHYME TO REASON ALEXANDER POPE By W. K. WIMSATT,JR. I The view of rhyme which I wish to discuss in this essay has...

...Kevin S. Kiernan Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 ATHELSTON AND THE RHYME OF THE ENGLISH ROMANCES By KEVINS. KIERNAN Perhaps the most detrimental attitude to an understanding arid ap- preciation...

... that there is no MG influence in this text, may well enough be correct. R-M. S. HEFFNER University of Wiseonsin The Phonology of Jacob Ayrer’s Language, Based on his Rhymes. By WILLIAM A. KOZUMPLIK. Dissertation, the University of Chicago, 1942. Pp. xv...

...Rachel Mayer Brownstein Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 BYRON’S DON JUAN: SOME REASONS FOR THE RHYMES By RACHELMAYER BROWNSTEIN Badly educated traveler that he is, Byron’s Don Juan must find language...

.... In their counterintuitive figures of address, meter, and rhyme, Rukeyser’s wartime poems offer a revisionary perspective on modern elegy and, in the context of their reception by the critic M. L. Rosenthal, an alternative to the milieus and politics of late modernism in American postwar literary culture. Copyright © 2019...

... rhythm and rhyme, are well suited for theorizing the repetitions of political power through their own intrinsic repetitiveness. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 repetition politics rhythm rhyme Spenserian stanza The natural sciences and the quantitative social sciences...

...Naomi Levine Abstract Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s imperfect rhymes, criticized since the nineteenth century, strangely resemble her blank verse. This essay argues that her experiments in poetic form should be viewed in relation to her reading and writing of literary history, particularly her...

... loose, almost willfully remiss abba rhyme scheme, and in the internal, whistling near repetition of mist-gornisht. Rhyme, whether heard as the poem is read or viewed on the page, focuses our attention on poetic language as such and draws our attention to the poem as a made object. These seemingly...

... for twentieth-century poetry of the forthcoming Longman anthology of southern literature, Voices of the American South . The Myth of the Fixed-Form Villanelle Julie Kane he villanelle, like the sonnet and the sestina, is one of the “fixed T poetic forms,” whose rhyme schemes and metrical...

... Abbott, 2nd ed. (London, 1956), p. 360. Introduction to More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany Etc. (London and New York, 1872), no pagination. 192 DAVID SONSTROEM 193 example, in the octave of “Spring” (No. 33)4...

... differences between classical and modern literary texts. Rhyme and accentual meter also separated vernacular poetry from the classics. These were not neutral observations about contemporary literature; they rapidly became calls to reform vernacular literary practice according to the models of antiq...

... as a versifier. He has certainly taken Goethe’s remark to Eckermann to heart. He has violated all the dicta of critics, has used false rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance in profusion, and, as the reviewer in the New Yorker rightly pointed out with respect to MacIntyre’s translations from...

... were spoken-kept their rhymes as general as possible, i.e., used words which were spoken in the same way in the various M.H.G. didects. Fantastic as this “hair-splitting pedantry” (Ehrismann) la may appear to some, it was very necessary at a time when reproduction depended so much...

..., the difficulty of using rhyme and meter resulted in the following errors : pronunciation of sounds nor- mally silent in French (Lucas: charitks spelled to rhyme with merites; Brevint : cudawes spelled to rhyme with uniuers) and suppression of sounds normally pronounced in French (Holles : uurions...

... (Part I) 275 George L. Lam and Warren H. Smith. George Vertue’s Contributions to Chaucerian Iconography 303 W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. One Relation of Rhyme to Reason: Alexander Pope 323 R. E. Watters. Wordsworth’s “Amaranthine Flower of Faith” 339 REVIEWS H. G...

.... Bal’mont thinks that his Poe-like stanza form, with its dramatic, multiple rhyming consonants, best captures the fiery spirit of crackling flame embodied in the Georgian language, landscape, and people; in Rustaveli; and in his Panther Skin.5 Bal’montian virtuosic translation is thus meant...

...) conjectures that this quality could be read as the effect of real grief: “Some have supposed that the arbitrary disposition of the rhymes produces a wild melody, adapted to the expression of sorrow. Some have thought the couplet and tetrastick with their stated returns of chime, preferable.” All other things...