Joseph B. Mayor

Chapters on English Metre

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1901, as the second edition of an 1886 original, this book provides a detailed analysis of English metrical systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781107445819
• ISBN-10: 1107445817
• Artikelnr.: 41611472

Autorenporträt

J.B. Mayor was Professor of Classics and of Moral Philosophy at King's College, London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Antiquarian a-priorism
3. Logical a-priorism
4. Aesthetic intuitivism
5. Natural or a-posteriori system
6. Metrical metamorphosis
7. Two recent metrical systems
8. Naming and classification of metres. Illustrations from Tenyson
9. Naming and classification of metres. Illustrations from the hymn-book
10. Blank verse of Surrey and Marlowe
11. Shakespeare's blank verse. Macbeth
12. Shakespeare's blank verse. Hamlet
13. Modern blank verse. Tennyson and Browning
14. Shelley's metre
15. The English hexameter
Appendix A. Mr H. Nicol and Prof. Paul Meyer on the Old French decasyllabic metre. Abstract of Zarncke's essay on the 5-foot iambus of Lessing and Schiller
Index.