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. |
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Page 70
... elaborate prose , should let it , perhaps not at first quite consciously , run into the mould most familiar to his brain . As he goes on he either finds the attempt too troublesome or ( which is on the whole more likely ) finds the ...
... elaborate prose , should let it , perhaps not at first quite consciously , run into the mould most familiar to his brain . As he goes on he either finds the attempt too troublesome or ( which is on the whole more likely ) finds the ...
Page 219
... elaborate prose for a long time impossible . In almost the last moments of the life of pure Anglo- Saxon - in the closing.passages of the Chronicle far into the twelfth century - the old tongue showed its already- mentioned grasp of ...
... elaborate prose for a long time impossible . In almost the last moments of the life of pure Anglo- Saxon - in the closing.passages of the Chronicle far into the twelfth century - the old tongue showed its already- mentioned grasp of ...
Page 228
... elaborate rhythmical arrangement is quite evidently one of the things which are not wanted in scientific discussion , and which , if any- body is in the unfortunate mood to do so , may be stigmatised as " beautiful deceits . " At any ...
... elaborate rhythmical arrangement is quite evidently one of the things which are not wanted in scientific discussion , and which , if any- body is in the unfortunate mood to do so , may be stigmatised as " beautiful deceits . " At any ...
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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 heaven 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