Augustan measures : Restoration and eighteenth-century writings on prosody and metre / Richard Bradford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradford, Richard, 1957-

Series:

Studies in early modern English literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--Criticism, Textual.

English poetry.

English poetry--18th century--Criticism, Textual.

English language--Versification.

English language.

Criticism--England--History--17th century.

Criticism.

Criticism--England--History--18th century.

History.

Criticism, Textual.

English poetry--Early modern.

England.

Physical Description:

vi, 247 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

1 The Critical Debate on Blank Verse and the Couplet up to Bysshe's Art of English Poetry (1702) 6

(i) A Sketch of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Opinion on Rhyme and the Structure of the Line

(ii) John Dryden's Early Theory of the Couplet and Blank Verse

(iii) Milton's Note and Later Developments in Dryden's Theory

(iv) Early Reactions to Paradise Lost

(v) Samuel Woodford and Later Criticism

(vi) John Dennis

2 Stress, Accent, Quantity and the Composition of the Pentameter 45

(i) The Basic Problem of the Syllable

(ii) The 'Conflationist Fallacy' as the Background to 'Pure Stress'

(iii) Bysshe and 'Pure Stress'

(iv) 'Elocutionist' Interpretations of Milton's Blank Verse and the Implications for Poetic Form

3 The Prescriptive Criticism 70

(i) The Implications of Bysshe's 'Rules'

(ii) The Early Development of the 'Syntactic' Theory of Metre

(iii) Kames

(iv) The Influence of the Prescriptive Prosody upon some Later Eighteenth-Century Criticism

4 The Elocution Movement and the Critical Work of Thomas Sheridan 97

(i) An Introduction to the Elocutionary Analysis of Poetry

(ii) Thomas Sheridan and the 'Pause of Suspension'

(iii) The 'Pause of Suspension' and the Structure of the Line

(iv) Sheridan's Pause and Earlier Work on the Poetic Line

(v) The Influence of Sheridan's Theory

5 The Elocution Movement and the Destruction of Form 130

(i) Rice, Walker and the 'Printer's Measure'

(ii) Attacks on the Validity of the Unrhymed Pentameter

(iii) The Destruction of Form and Romantic Prosodic Theory

(iv) Some Reflections on the Elocution Movement and the History of English Prosody

6 The Theory of Rhyme, and Poetic Genres 155

(i) Rhyme and Syntax

(ii) Enjambment and Closure: Form and Meaning in the Couplet

(iii) The Polarisation of Prosody

(iv) Perceptions of Verse Structure and the Demarcation of Poetic Genres

7 Form and Meaning in Blank Verse 186

(i) Milton's Pentameter and 'Counterpoint'

(ii) The 'Unrhymed Couplet'

(iii) Enjambed Blank Verse in the Eighteenth Century

(iv) A Return to the 'Miltonic' Use of the Line and Syntax

Appendix 1 Dryden's Connection with the Preface to Joshua Poole's English Parnassus 226

Appendix 2 'Rhyme' and 'Rime' in Paradise Lost 228.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [230]-244) and index.

ISBN:

0754607119

OCLC:

49640391