Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres

By Derek Attridge

Book Overview

Examines Sidney's statement that quantitative verse on the Latin model is more suitable than the accentual verse of the English tradition during the Renaissance. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521205301
• ISBN13: 9780521205306
• Release Date: March 1975
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.