Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres Book

Sidney's statement in his Apology for Poetry that quantitative verse on the Latin model is more suitable than the accentual verse of the English tradition 'lively to express divers passions, by the low and lofty sound of the well-weighed syllable' is only one of numerous assertions of the superiority of classical over native metres made by English scholars and poets during the Renaissance.Read More

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  • 0521297222
  • 9780521297226
  • Derek Attridge
  • 6 December 1979
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 268
  • 1
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