Richard Bradford
Ashgate
Hardback
256
2002
Augustan Measures is the first comprehensive survey of Restoration and 18th century writings on metre and poetic form. The study focuses mainly on the debates caused by the perceived differences between the couplet and blank verse and provides a survey of the techniques and findings of our 17th and 18th century precursors.The volume discusses 16th and early 17th century writings on metre as the background to the 18th century debates the conflicting and often confusing theories forwarded by later-17th and 18th century critics the contributions of the Prescriptive and Elocutionist critics and rhyme and blank verse. At the end Bradford concentrates upon how and why the blank verse of Milton and his 18th-century successors raised particular questions for contemporary critics.
Ashgate
Hardback
256
2002
Augustan Measures is the first comprehensive survey of Restoration and 18th century writings on metre and poetic form. The study focuses mainly on the debates caused by the perceived differences between the couplet and blank verse and provides a survey of the techniques and findings of our 17th and 18th century precursors.The volume discusses 16th and early 17th century writings on metre as the background to the 18th century debates the conflicting and often confusing theories forwarded by later-17th and 18th century critics the contributions of the Prescriptive and Elocutionist critics and rhyme and blank verse. At the end Bradford concentrates upon how and why the blank verse of Milton and his 18th-century successors raised particular questions for contemporary critics.