Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance

by O.B. Hardison Jr.

Book Overview

Originally published in 1989. In Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance the eminent scholar O. B. Hardison Jr. sets out "to recover the special kinds of music inherent in English Renaissance poetry." The book begins with a thorough and wide-ranging survey of the development of prosodic theory from the ancient ars metrica tradition to the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on such issues as the relation of verse form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421430517
• ISBN13: 9781421430515
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"