...Edward Payson Morton Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 Chronology and Metrical Tests* Edward Payson Morton, Professor of English in Wake Forest College In getting together material for other purposes, I have found that in the work of a number of poets we have sufficient knowl­...

... immediately so, and that its metric is cognizable in a critical understanding of the received idea of “real time.” Following an introduction titled “Undercount Nation,” the essay proceeds in six sections: (I) Studies in Prejudice, Primordial Restitution, Interpretation neither Stringent nor Arbitrary; (2...

...David M. Fahey; Charles A. Gliozzo Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 The Metric System and the French Revolution David M. Fahey and Charles A. Gliozzo I Like many reforms consummated during the French Revolution, the metric system built on ideas salvaged from the wreck of the old...

... not only by the imperatives of assessing migrant lives within circumscribed metrics of productive worth but also with the uncomfortable and messy emplacement of these migrant subjects within geographic, affective, and political arenas. Through ethnographic observations and interviews of queer migrants...

... Vision and Verse in William Blake. By Alicia Ostriker. Madison and Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Pp. x, 224. $6.00. If you write about Blake, Miss Ostriker warns us, you cannot expect to please everyone. If you write about metrics, you cannot expect to please anyone. And she may...

... to have provided Schreber with a vocabulary and an imaginary. Rather, what interests me most about Schreber’s account is that, except for the occasional bellow, the verbal and metrical contestations he describes do not belong...

... in considering the transition from the Nuove Poesie to the Odi Barbare. Particularly is this true in what concerns metrics. The innovations made by Carducci in the field of metrics, con­ versant as he was with the models of the ancients, gained sup­ port from the splendid results obtained by the Germans...

... Vision and Verse in William Blake. By Alicia Ostriker. Madison and Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Pp. x, 224. $6.00. If you write about Blake, Miss Ostriker warns us, you cannot expect to please everyone. If you write about metrics, you cannot expect to please anyone. And she may...

... indications that the hoary fallacy of a rendering in the meter of the original is passing into the limbo of forgotten things. All metrical translation rests on the assumption that languages are so alike that the effect of verse in one is rendered by verse in another. That is equivalent to saying that wooden...

... UNIVERSITY W. T. LAPRADE Vision and Verse in William Blake. By Alicia Ostriker. Madison and Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Pp. x, 224. $6.00. If you write about Blake, Miss Ostriker warns us, you cannot expect to please everyone. If you write about metrics, you cannot expect to please...

... of the many indications that the hoary fallacy of a rendering in the meter of the original is passing into the limbo of forgotten things. All metrical translation rests on the assumption that languages are so alike that the effect of verse in one is rendered by verse in another. That is equivalent to saying...

...: Rinehart and Company, 1954. Pp. xviii, 492. $5.00. This version is one more of the many indications that the hoary fallacy of a rendering in the meter of the original is passing into the limbo of forgotten things. All metrical translation rests on the assumption that languages are so alike...

... last comes a section on metrical effects, elusive, tenuous, debatable things that they are. Serious cases could be made against nearly every metrical thesis Stein advances, and his notes point to some of tne dissents that are already in print. He then courageously tackles neglected problems of sound...

... injunction to tume over the leef. Space permits no more than a rapid listing of authors and titles, and a tag-phrase or two of evaluative description: I. F. T. Prince, The Sonnet from Wyatt to Shakespeare, a somewhat jejune attempt to enumerate the metrical devices and themes that Shakespeare inherited...

... Wyatt to Shakespeare, a somewhat jejune attempt to enumerate the metrical devices and themes that Shakespeare inherited from earlier English sonneteers; n. Franklin Dickey, Collections of Songs and Sonnets, a judicious chronological account of printed col­ lections of verse, giving concise...

... of the scales used to weigh goods in the market- places—a resistance to the imperial government’s introduction of the metric system in Brazil more than ten years earlier, in 1862. The act of smashing scales both identifies changes and defies them on the level of the everyday. If the structures...

... in attaining effects of realism and verisimilitude, they loosened the strict metrical bonds but retained the poetry. They enjoyed thus the double advantage of turning from the great flights of passion, the lyric purple of description apd declamation, to the lower levels of informal speech without apparent...

... and a half metric quintals). He proposed that a combination of crop rotation and irrigation would make it possible to cut by two-thirds the area planted and still obtain the same total yield; i.e., five million hectares of scientifically ex­ ploited land should produce a yield of fifteen to sixteen metric...

... upon the Introduction beautifully right about Donne, but probably best read last comes a section on metrical effects, elusive, tenuous, debatable things that they are. Serious cases could be made against nearly every metrical thesis Stein advances, and his notes point to some of tne dissents...

... changed by way of the other metrics of development the survey questions had attempted to gauge. As the research paper published a few months later lamented, there was no systematic evidence for changes in savings, spending, business creation, time spent working or studying, or other broader indicators...