A History of English Prose RhythmIndiana University Press, 1965 - 489 pages This scholarly exploration of meter and rhythm begins with ancient Greece and Rome; moving through Old and Middle English; Chaucer; the ornate and plain styles; Edmund Burke; the great novelists of the nineteenth century such as Austen, Dickens, and Thackeray; the lyrical prose of John Ruskin; and more. It is one of the very few full-length studies of prose rhythm. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 49
Page 119
... literary history the grands rhétoriqueurs — of what is called in English literary history " aureate diction . " This had to be brought within reasonable limits . It was not desirable that English should follow the French patterns of ...
... literary history the grands rhétoriqueurs — of what is called in English literary history " aureate diction . " This had to be brought within reasonable limits . It was not desirable that English should follow the French patterns of ...
Page 158
... literary knowledge , have looked over the list of the English Forty - Seven , 2 that the excellence of their work is certainly not due to the presence among them of many , or even of any , very distinguished men of letters as such ...
... literary knowledge , have looked over the list of the English Forty - Seven , 2 that the excellence of their work is certainly not due to the presence among them of many , or even of any , very distinguished men of letters as such ...
Page 201
... literary enquiry . But enough document should have been given , and perhaps more than enough comment , whereon to base some general remarks . If the fact of the charm be denied , there is no use in Glanvill . counter - affirmation . The ...
... literary enquiry . But enough document should have been given , and perhaps more than enough comment , whereon to base some general remarks . If the fact of the charm be denied , there is no use in Glanvill . counter - affirmation . The ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actual Addison Ælfric alliteration amphibrach anapæst Anglo-Saxon Aristotle arrangement Authorised Version balance beautiful better blank verse cadence called century certainly character Chaucer clauses colour course criticism Cynewulf dactyl dochmiac doubt Dryden effect elaborate English prose Euphuism examples extent fact famous fashion feet foot French genius give Greek harmony hath Hooker iamb iambic influence kind Landor language Latin least less literary literature Lord Malory matter means merely metre Middle English molossus monosyllable nature never observed Old English once pæon paragraph parallel passage perhaps phrase poet poetic poetry possible prose rhythm Prosody Quincey Quintilian reader remarkable rhetorical rhythmical Ruskin scansion seems sense sentence short sometimes spondee style Suspiria syllable thee things thou thought translation trochaic trochee unto vulgar Vulgate whole words writer Wyclif þæt