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Afterword On Rupert Brooke
''Afterword on Rupert Brooke'' is a poem by F. T. Prince published in 1976. Prince's note on the poem states, "The verse is syllabic, in a measure of twelve syllables devised by Robert Bridges." He is referring to Bridges' Neo-Miltonic Syllabics. Prince writes that Bridges' poem " Poor Poll" was his first illustration of the meter's potentialities, and remains the best guide to its structure. He also states that he allowed himself fewer elisions In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. However, these terms are also used to refer more narrowly to cases where two words are run toge ... than did Bridges in the later and more famous example of the meter, ''The Testament of Beauty'' (1930), and that he aimed for a "greater variety of rhythm" than displayed in Bridges' poem. References * Prince, F. T., ''Collected Poems: 1935 – 1992,'' The Sheep Meadow Press, 1993. { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syllabic Verse
Syllabic verse is a poetic form having a fixed or constrained number of syllables per line, while stress, quantity, or tone play a distinctly secondary role — or no role at all — in the verse structure. It is common in languages that are syllable-timed, such as French or Finnish — as opposed to stress-timed languages such as English, in which accentual verse and accentual-syllabic verse are more common. Overview Many European languages have significant syllabic verse traditions, notably Italian, Spanish, French, and the Baltic and Slavic languages. These traditions often permeate both folk and literary verse, and have evolved gradually over hundreds or thousands of years; in a sense the metrical tradition is older than the languages themselves, since it (like the languages) descended from Proto-Indo-European. It is often implied — but it is not true — that word stress plays no part in the syllabic prosody of these languages. Indeed in most of these languages word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bridges
Robert Seymour Bridges (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was an English poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is the author of many well-known hymns. It was through Bridges's efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame. Personal and professional life Bridges was born at Walmer, Kent, in England, the son of John Thomas Bridges (died 1853) and his wife Harriett Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Sir Robert Affleck, 4th Baronet. He was the fourth son and eighth child. After his father's death his mother married again, in 1854, to John Edward Nassau Molesworth, vicar of Rochdale, and the family moved there. Bridges was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, intending to practise until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. He practised a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poor Poll
"Poor Poll" is a poem written by Robert Bridges in 1921, and first collected in his book ''New Verse'' (1925). The poem is the first example of Bridges' Neo-Miltonic Syllabics. "Poor Poll" was composed at the same time as T. S. Eliot was writing ''The Waste Land''. Donald E. Stanford. ''In the Classic Mode: The Achievement of Robert Bridges,'' Associated University Presses, 1978. . Page 118. Both Eliot and Bridges were searching{{Citation needed, date=June 2010 for a medium which would allow the incorporation of a wide variety of material, including phrases in foreign languages. Bridges wrote in a later essay, "It was partly this wish for liberty to use various tongues that made me address my first experiment to a parrot, but partly also my wish to discover how a low setting of scene and diction would stand; because one of the main limitations of English verse is that its accentual (dot and go one) bumping is apt to make ordinary words ridiculous" It has been suggestedWilliam H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bridges' Theory Of Elision
Robert Bridges's theory of elision is a theory of elision developed by the poet Robert Bridges, while he was working on a prosodic analysis of John Milton's poems ''Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.'' Bridges describes his theory in thorough detail in his 1921 book ''Milton's Prosody''. With his definition of poetic elision, Bridges is able to demonstrate that no line in ''Paradise Lost'' contains an extra unmetrical syllable mid-line; that is, any apparent extra mid-line syllable can be explained as an example of Bridges's elision. Milton's elision in ''Paradise Lost'' Bridges identifies the following kinds of elision: # vowel elisions # elision through H # poetic elision of semi-vowels # elision through R # elision through L # elision through N Vowel elisions Bridges identifies two basic types of vowel elision # the y-glide #the w-glide The y-glide Bridges identifies three situations where this could occur: #where the first syllable is stressed, such as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |