Augustan measures : Restoration and eighteenth century writings on prosody and metre
This text provides a study of the work of 17th- and 18th-century critics who offer an insight into the development of English poetry. The critics examined dealt with a shared agenda and addressed closely-related questions, all essentially concerned with metre and versification.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vi, 247 p. ; 22 cm.
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The critical debate up to Bysshe's "Art of English Poetry" (1702); Stress, accent, quantity and the composition of the pentameter; The prescriptive criticism; The elocution movement and the critical work of Thomas Sheridan; The elocution movement and the destruction of form; The theory of rhyme, and poetic genres; Form and meaning in blank verse. Appendices: Dryden's connection with the preface to Joshua Poole's English Parnassus; "Rhyme" and "rime" in Paradise Lost.