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... English verse , however , accent is more prominent than quantity , and it has not always been remembered that the convenient Greek symbols for long and short , when applied to English poetry mean " accented " and " slack " syllables and ...
... English verse , however , accent is more prominent than quantity , and it has not always been remembered that the convenient Greek symbols for long and short , when applied to English poetry mean " accented " and " slack " syllables and ...
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Samuel Holroyd Burton. ( 2 ) While the basis of English metre is accent , the basis of English rhythm is a blend of accent and quantity , and both must be taken into account when studying the versifica- tion of poetry . In the discussion ...
Samuel Holroyd Burton. ( 2 ) While the basis of English metre is accent , the basis of English rhythm is a blend of accent and quantity , and both must be taken into account when studying the versifica- tion of poetry . In the discussion ...
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... English Verse , Prose and Speech . ( English Association Essays and Studies , Vol . V. ) J. MIDDLETON MURRY : The Problem of Style . GEORGE SAINTSBURY : A History of English Criticism and A History of English Prosody . J. H. SCOTT ...
... English Verse , Prose and Speech . ( English Association Essays and Studies , Vol . V. ) J. MIDDLETON MURRY : The Problem of Style . GEORGE SAINTSBURY : A History of English Criticism and A History of English Prosody . J. H. SCOTT ...
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MEANING AND INTENTION II | 11 |
FINAL JUDGEMENT | 120 |
A PIECE OF CRITICISM | 132 |
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight detail diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination judge Keats leaves light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth writing دو