Milton's Prosody, & Classical Meters in English Verse, by William Johnson Stone.

(A combined revision of the 1887 & 1889 works.) Milton's Prosody: An Examination of the rules of the Blank Verse in Milton's Later Poems, with an Account of the Versification of Samson Agonistes and General Notes. Beeching's edition of Paradise Lost, Book I, Clarendon Press, Oxford. On the Prosody of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes: Being a Supplement to the paper 'On the Elements of Milton's Blank Verse in Paradise Lost,' which is reprinted in the Rev. 'On the Elements of Milton's Blank Verse in Paradise Lost'. The contents of the book evolved over decades through several published versions: When Gerard Manley Hopkins visited Bridges in mid August 1886, they discussed Bridges' work on the preface. Beeching wanted something to counter the prevailing da-DUM-da-DUM style of reading, that artificially distorted words to fit the regular pattern of the iambic pentameter rhythm. The final section of the book presents a new system of prosody for accentual verse.īridges had been asked by Henry Beeching, his local vicar, to write a preface for an edition of Paradise Lost that Beeching was preparing for sixth-form pupils. A third section deals with 'obsolete mannerisms'. It was first published by Oxford University Press in 1889, and a final revised edition was published in 1921.īridges begins with a detailed empirical analysis of the blank verse of Paradise Lost, and then examines the changes in Milton's practice in his later poems Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Milton's Prosody, with a chapter on Accentual Verse and Notes is a book by Robert Bridges.

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