[Milton-L] prosody

Mon Jun 15 11:56:03 EDT 2009

In response to Kemmer Anderson's query (and with many thanks to John 
Shawcross and others for mentioning my own work), here below -- for anyone 
interested -- is the bibliography accompanying my entry on prosody in the 
forthcoming Milton Encyulopaedia edited by Tom Corns.

John Creaser

Derek Attridge, Well-weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical 
Metres (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974).

____________, The Rhythms of English Poetry (Longman, English Language 
Series 14, 1982).

___________, Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge 
University Press, 1995).

Robert Beum, 'So Much Gravity and Ease', in Language and Style in Milton, 
ed. Ronald David Emma and John T. Shawcross (New York: Frederick Ungar, 
1967), pp. 333-68.

Richard Bradford, '"Verse only to the Eye"? Line Endings in Paradise Lost', 
EIC, 33 (1983), 187-204.

Robert Bridges, Milton's Prosody (Oxford: Oxford University Press, revised 
final edition, 1921).

Archie Burnett, '"Sense Variously Drawn Out": the Line in Paradise Lost', 
Literary Imagination, 5 (2003), 69-92.

John Creaser, '"Through Mazes Running"; Rhythmic Verve in Milton's L'Allegro 
and Il Penseroso', RES, 52 (2001), 376-410.

__________,'Prosody and Liberty in Milton and Marvell', in Milton and the 
Terms of Liberty, ed. Graham Parry and Joad Raymond (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 
37-55.

__________, '"Service is perfect freedom": Paradox and Prosodic Style in 
Paradise Lost', RES, New Series 58 (2007), 268-315.

John S. Diekhoff, 'Rhyme in Paradise Lost', PMLA, 49 (1934), 539-43.

______________, 'Milton's Prosody in the Poems of the Trinity Manuscript', 
PMLA, 54 (1939), 153-83.

Robert O. Evans, Milton's Elisions (Gainesville: University of Florida 
Monographs, Humanities no. 21, 1966).

Maurice Kelley and Samuel D. Atkins, 'Milton's Annotations of Euripides', 
JEGP, 60 (1961), 680-7.

G. Stanley Koehler, 'Milton on "Numbers", "Quantity", and Rime', SP, 55 
(1958), 201-17.

Lawrence H. McCauley, 'Milton's Missing Rhymes', Style, 28 (1994), 242-59.

Steven M. Oberhelman and John Mulryan, 'Milton's Use of Classical Meters in 
the Sylvarum liber', MP, 81 (1983), 131-45.

Ants Oras, Blank Verse and Chronology in Milton (Gainesville: University of 
Florida Monographs, Humanities no. 20, 1966).

F.T. Prince, The Italian Element in Milton's Verse (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 
1954).

J.M. Purcell, 'Rime in Paradise Lost', MLN, 59 (1944), 171-2.

Christopher Ricks, 'John Milton: Sound and Sense in Paradise Lost', in The 
Force of Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 60-79.

John S. Smart, (ed.), The Sonnets of Milton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921, 
rpt. 1966).

J.C. Smith, 'Feminine Endings in Milton's Blank Verse', TLS, 5 December 
1936, p. 1016.

Ada L.F. Snell, 'An Objective Study of Syllabic Quantity in English Verse', 
PMLA, 33 (1918), 396-408.

S. Ernest Sprott, Milton's Art of Prosody (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953).

André Verbart, 'Measure and Hypermetricality in Paradise Lost', English 
Studies, 80 (1999), 428-48.

Edward R. Weismiller, 'The "Dry" and "Rugged" Verse', in The Lyric and 
Dramatic Milton, ed. Joseph H. Summers (New York: Columbia University Press, 
1965), pp. 115-52.

__________________, 'Studies of Verse Form in the Minor English Poems', 
Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton: the Minor English Poems, 
ed. A.S.P. Woodhouse and Douglas Bush (Routledge, 1972), 2.3.1007-87.

__________________, 'Studies of Style and Verse Form in Paradise Regained', 
in Variorum Commentary, ed. Walter MacKellar (1975), 4.263-363.

__________________, entries on 'Blank Verse' and 'Versification', in A 
Milton Encyclopedia, gen. ed. W.B. Hunter, Jr., (Lewisburg: Bucknell 
University Press, 9 vols., 1978-), 1.179-92 and 8.113-35.

M. Whiteley, 'Verse and its Feet', RES, 9 (1958), 274 of 268-79.

George T. Wright, Shakespeare's Metrical Art (Berkeley: University of 
California Press, 1988).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Shawcross" <elea48 at insightbb.com>
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:42 AM
Subject: [Milton-L] prosody

> Dear Kemmer,
>
> Where have you been?? Of course see John Creasor's very important 
> discussion, and you should
> know and been able to get Bridges and Sprott. But also you should  read 
> Edward Weismiller's work
> (and the footnotes will give you many more leads) in the "Variorum 
> Commentary" in Part 3 of Volume
> 2, "The Shorter Poems" (ed. A. S. P. Woodhouse and Douglas Bush), and 
> Volume 4, "Paradise Regain'd"
> (ed. Walter MacKellar), which also cites his article on "Samson 
> Agonistes." I know you know the publications
> of  Jefferson's "Library" and the "Commonplace Book" (with his  citations 
> from PL and SA); his copies of PL and PR precede
> 1786 (the Baskerville, 1758, for example, and others).
>
> John
>
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