Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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Page 57
... Pope in the " Essay on Criticism " ; the couplet follows directly the one in which Ajax is depicted striving to throw his rock's vast weight : Not so , when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flíes o'er / th'unbend / ing corn , / and ...
... Pope in the " Essay on Criticism " ; the couplet follows directly the one in which Ajax is depicted striving to throw his rock's vast weight : Not so , when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flíes o'er / th'unbend / ing corn , / and ...
Page 84
... Pope ) largely maintained the Renais- sance tradition of expressive variations , even they could not help responding to the regularistic climate : they carefully observed a uniformity in the number of syllables per line — that is , they ...
... Pope ) largely maintained the Renais- sance tradition of expressive variations , even they could not help responding to the regularistic climate : they carefully observed a uniformity in the number of syllables per line — that is , they ...
Page 206
... Pope , Alexander , 12 , 49 , 84-85 , 96 , 116 , 138 ; Dunciad , 46 ; Eloisa to Abelard , 44 ; Epis- tle to Arbuthnot , 46 , 55 , 68- 69 ; Epistle to Fortescue , 61- 62 ; Essay on Criticism , 43 , 54 , 57 ; Essay on Man , 17 , 44 , 45 ...
... Pope , Alexander , 12 , 49 , 84-85 , 96 , 116 , 138 ; Dunciad , 46 ; Eloisa to Abelard , 44 ; Epis- tle to Arbuthnot , 46 , 55 , 68- 69 ; Epistle to Fortescue , 61- 62 ; Essay on Criticism , 43 , 54 , 57 ; Essay on Man , 17 , 44 , 45 ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
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