[Milton-L] prosody

Tue Jun 16 11:14:11 EDT 2009

I think Darwin established that scholarly evolution operates partly
according to a survival of the nudgers principle, providing what's nudged is
sufficiently fit.

Nudging toward work beyond the U.S. and U.K. is especially welcome, though.
Speaking for myself, I often feel woefully ignorant of what's written
outside of my linguistic comfort zone.

Thanks,

Hannibal

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Marie-Dominique Garnier <
Marie-Dominique.Garnier at univ-paris8.fr> wrote:

>  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
> *To:* John Milton Discussion List
> *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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