Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres by D. Attridge, Derek Attridge, Attridge

Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres

D. Attridge, Derek Attridge, Attridge

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Sidney'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'...

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