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- Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance
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- 2019
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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Originally published in 1989. In Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance the eminent scholar O. B. Hardison Jr. sets out "to recover the special kinds of music inherent in English Renaissance poetry." The book begins with a thorough and wide-ranging survey of the development of prosodic theory from the ancient ars metrica tradition to the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on such issues as the relation of verse form and genre, the relation of syntax to prosody, and the role of language reform in shaping Renaissance prosody. The second part of the book considers the impact of prosodic traditions on specific literary works and verse forms, among them Surrey's Aeneid, Heywood's translation of Seneca's Thyestes, Sackville and Norton's Gorboduc, and the dramatic and epic verse of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Throughout, Hardison examines not only how poets crafted their verse but why. He explores authorial purposes ranging from technical attempts to match sound and genre to the lofty aims of improving the vernacular or ennobling culture, from the dramatist's practical search for verse forms suited to the stage to Milton's quest for a meter fit to convey divine relation.
Table of Contents
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- Half Title
- p. i
- By the same Author
- p. ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- p. v
- PART I. Contexts
- Chapter 1. Prosody and Purpose
- pp. 3-22
- Chapter II. Ars Metrica
- pp. 23-42
- Chapter V. Notes of Instruction
- pp. 92-124
- PART II. Performances
- Chapter VII. Jasper Heywood’s Fourteeners
- pp. 148-170
- Chapter IX. Heroic Experiments
- pp. 196-225
- Chapter XI. True Musical Delight
- pp. 258-276
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ISBN
9781421430508
Related ISBN(s)
9780801837227, 9781421430515, 9781421430881
MARC Record
OCLC
1117490246
Pages
362
Launched on MUSE
2019-09-12
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND