Natural Emphasis: English Versification from Chaucer to DrydenHuntington Library, 1984 - 310 pages Clear and mostly traditional in its approach to verse analysis, with a new look at the development of versification in Modern English, Natural Emphasis makes wide-ranging use of recent theoretical and linguistic studies to examine the chief contributions of poets from Chaucer to Dryden. |
Contents
Terms and Approaches | 1 |
Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century | 21 |
Wyatt and Surrey | 69 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
accent accentual-syllabic aesthetic alliteration alliterative appear ballade stanzas blank verse Cambridge Campion century cesura Chaucer's classical complex couplet decasyllabic line Donne Donne's doth effect Elizabethan emphasis end-stopped English Poetry English verse enjambment example Faerie Queene five stanzas foot formal four stanzas fourth syllable French Gascoigne Gascoigne's George Gascoigne hath Herbert Herrick hexameter iamb iambic pentameter imitate invention John Jonson language Latin lineation lish London Lydgate Lydgate's lyric metrical mid-line pause mimetic narrative octosyllabic Oxford Univ patterns Pembroke pentameter line phrasing poem poem's poetic poets poulters measure practice Press prose Prosody Psalms quantitative quantitative verse Ralegh reader regular Renaissance rhetorical rhyme rhythmic Romance Ryme Saintsbury Shakespeare Shepheardes Calendar Sidney Sidney's six stanzas song sonnet Spenser stress strophic forms suggests Surrey Surrey's syllabic verse syllabification syllables tetrameter thou tion Tottel tradition translation trimeter trochaic trochee varied variety verse forms versification voice words Wyatt's