Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance

He explores authorial purposes ranging from technical attempts to match sound and genre to the lofty aims of improving the vernacular or ennobling culture, from the dramatist's practical search for verse forms suited to the stage to Milton's quest for a meter fit to convey divine relation.

• | Author: O. B. Hardison Jr.
• | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• | Publication Date: December 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 362 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1421430517
• | ISBN-13: 9781421430515