Well-Weighed Syllables - Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres

Klappentext Examines Sidney's statement that quantitative verse on the Latin model is more suitable than the accentual verse of the English tradition during the Renaissance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Elizabethan understanding of Latin metre: 1. Problems of Latin prosody; 2. The Elizabethan pronunciation of Latin; 3. The Elizabethan reading of Latin verse; 4. Latin prosody in the Elizabethan grammar school; 5. Vowel-length, quantity and accent; 6. Continental discussions of Latin quantity; Part II. English Verse and classical metre: 7. Attitudes towards accentual verse; 8. The quantitative movement - causes; 9. The quantitative movement - magnitude; 10. The quantitative movement - characteristics; Part III. Quantative poets and theorists: 11. Uncompromising imitation - Richard Stanyhurst; 12. Scholarship and sensitivity - Sir Philip Sidney; 13. 'Our new famous enterprise' - Spenser, Harvey and Fraunce; 14. Four approaches to quantitative verse; 15. Theory and compromise - Puttenham and Campion.

Product details

• Authors: Attridge, D. Attridge, Derek Attridge, Attridge Derek
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.1979
• EAN: 9780521297226
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29722-6
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general