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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... verse.1 It is a sort of commonplace of literary history that verse is always older than prose , and in the case of most literatures - especially modern ones — it is 1 Dr. Lawrence's remark ( see Preface ) , which so impressed me , is as ...
... verse.1 It is a sort of commonplace of literary history that verse is always older than prose , and in the case of most literatures - especially modern ones — it is 1 Dr. Lawrence's remark ( see Preface ) , which so impressed me , is as ...
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... verse and English verse , is mainly iambic , though he does not neglect the precious inheritance of the trochaic or amphibrachic ending , nor the infusion of the trochaic run elsewhere . His sentences , though sometimes of fair length ...
... verse and English verse , is mainly iambic , though he does not neglect the precious inheritance of the trochaic or amphibrachic ending , nor the infusion of the trochaic run elsewhere . His sentences , though sometimes of fair length ...
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... verse or verse - prose like Elfric's . I believe that trochaic rhythm is more conspicuous in modern English prose of the elaborate kind than it is in modern English verse . And it is certain that what would once have been called the ...
... verse or verse - prose like Elfric's . I believe that trochaic rhythm is more conspicuous in modern English prose of the elaborate kind than it is in modern English verse . And it is certain that what would once have been called the ...
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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