{"product_id":"well-weighed-syllables-elizabethan-verse-in-classical-metres-paperback-9780521297226","title":"Well-Weighed Syllables; Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres (Paperback) 9780521297226","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWell-Weighed Syllables\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eElizabethan Verse in Classical Metres\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines Sidney's statement that quantitative verse on the Latin model is more suitable than the accentual verse of the English tradition during the Renaissance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDerek Attridge (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521297226, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 6 December 1979\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSidney'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, stretching from Roger Ascham some twenty years earlier to Ben Jonson some fifty years later.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The Elizabethan understanding of Latin metre: 1. Problems of Latin prosody\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Elizabethan pronunciation of Latin\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Elizabethan reading of Latin verse\u003cbr\u003e 4. Latin prosody in the Elizabethan grammar school\u003cbr\u003e 5. Vowel-length, quantity and accent\u003cbr\u003e 6. Continental discussions of Latin quantity\u003cbr\u003e Part II. English Verse and classical metre: 7. Attitudes towards accentual verse\u003cbr\u003e 8. The quantitative movement - causes\u003cbr\u003e 9. The quantitative movement - magnitude\u003cbr\u003e 10. The quantitative movement - characteristics\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Quantative poets and theorists: 11. Uncompromising imitation - Richard Stanyhurst\u003cbr\u003e 12. Scholarship and sensitivity - Sir Philip Sidney\u003cbr\u003e 13. 'Our new famous enterprise' - Spenser, Harvey and Fraunce\u003cbr\u003e 14. Four approaches to quantitative verse\u003cbr\u003e 15. Theory and compromise - Puttenham and Campion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46000937500952,"sku":"9780521297226","price":37.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521297226i_924a2838-d44c-4973-bc95-2ac399484ce6.jpg?v=1691374894","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/well-weighed-syllables-elizabethan-verse-in-classical-metres-paperback-9780521297226","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}