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A Prosody Manual

May 9th 2007 11:54
I've mentioned this book once before I think.

Its called

HISTORICAL MANUAL of ENGLISH PROSODY

BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY. Published 1930


So carrying on from earlier blogs what use are prosody manuals?

How can they help you improve the enjoyment of reading poetry or improve your mastery of structure. Well whichever meter you chose for your verse or find your verse is flowing into studying it is useful. Its like knitting or weaving perhaps. Knowing and having a pattern ready that you can have your colors added to ???


This particular book discusses accent stress foot meter and illustrated them with samples taken from all the eras of Englsih verse from Old English onwards.

you learn about Alexandrines and when sonnets were first written in English and enjoy examples. It also has a complete explanation fo what such metrical forms are as:

Amphibrach Anapaest Ballads and Ballade Dactyls and Dimeter and Hendecasyllabics and the delights of Odes and Pindarics and Rondeaus and Rondels and Spondees.

the authors range from Matthew Arnold, chaucer, Keats, Morris, Rossetti,( Both Rossettis) thru to Thomas Wyatt

A good book on poetic prosody or meter adds to your delight in verse. Why? Because no matter how much you know about the structure analysis does not spoil the joy it adds to it and makes the moment of inspiration contained in the poem all the more special!

Know some one please aks me a question about meter so I can enjoy re-reading Saintsbury delightful notes and praise on page 213 of Christian Rossetti!

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