... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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. This passage...

... 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...

... a mature description of Rilke’s later work The most immediate impression gained from reading these translations is MacIntyre’s inventiveness 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...

... 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...

... that of mature Frenchmen to that of British undergraduates is naturally uneven. In general, however, allowing for frequent printing errors,18 these diverse authors wrote fairly simple, idiomatic, and grammatical, if not poetic, French. At worst, the difficulty of using rhyme and meter resulted...

... (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...

...” (Warton 1785 : 34); its “chief excellence” is its “enchanting imagery” (Anon. 1778 ); its rhymes “exhibit, in their varied and arbitrary disposition, an ease and gracefulness, which infinitely exceed the formal couplets, or alternate rhymes, of modern Elegy,” the “sweet effusion of a most poetick...