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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bridges, Robert Seymour, 1844-1930. Milton's prosody. Oxford [Oxford University Press] 1921 (OCoLC)568758451 |
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| Named Person: | John Milton |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Bridges |
| OCLC Number: | 2607390 |
| Description: | viii, 119 p. 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I: On the prosody of Paradise lost -- Method of treatise: digression on quantity -- Exception to the syllables being ten: digression on the midverse extrametrical, digression on Elision -- Variety in number of stresses -- Inversion of feet: remarks on the breaking in the verse -- Part II: On the prosody of Paradise regained and Samson agonistes -- The relaxation which is found in Paradise regained and Samson agonistes of the laws of 'Elision' in Paradies lost -- The prosody and rhythm of Samson agonistes -- Part III: On obsolete mannerisms -- Recession of accent -- Spelling -- Pronunciation -- Part IV: On the prosody of accentual verse -- The rules of the common lighter stress-rhythms, and of the English accentual hexameter -- Heavier accentual rhythms -- The accentual hexameter. |
| Responsibility: | by Robert Bridges. |
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