[Milton-L] prosody

Tue Jun 16 04:59:10 EDT 2009

To this undoubtedly excellent, but perhaps « New-World »-oriented list, I
would like to point out the existence of a book published recently on the
subject of Milton (which includes discussions on prosody) but which does not
seem to have made it across the Atlantic: the book is, yet once more,
Christophe Tournu’s Milton in France, (Peter Lang,  Berne 2008: IBSN:
978-3-03911-604-1). There are several pieces in it which address prosody and
in particular the question of how to scan the last line of Samson Agonistes,
“all passion spent”
 That one of the pieces in it happens to me my own will
not, I hope,  be interpreted as an attempt to nudge anything forward – just
an attempt to survive (is it the same ?).

Marie-D. Garnier

U of Paris 8

From: milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu
[mailto:milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu] On Behalf Of Hannibal Hamlin
Sent: lundi 15 juin 2009 18:41
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Subject: Re: [Milton-L] prosody

To this excellent list, I would add a couple of superb and essential works
on enjambment: John Hollander, “‘Sense Variously Drawn Out’: on English
Enjambment,” in Vision and Resonance: Two Sense of Poetic Form (New York:
Oxford UP, 1975), 91-116; and Justus George Lawler, “Commerce,” in Celestial
Pantomime: Poetic Structures of Transcendence, expanded ed. (New York:
Continuum, 1994), 73-103. I might also nudge forward my own article on the
influence upon Milton (in his Psalms 1-8) of the Sidney Psalms, which
focuses on enjambment: “‘The highest matter in the noblest forme’: The
Influence of the Sidney Psalms.” Sidney Journal 23.1-2 (2005): 133-59.

Hannibal

On 6/15/09, J. W. Creaser <john.creaser at mansfield.ox.ac.uk> wrote: 

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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