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Prose-Rhythm and Prose-Metre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

H. D. Broadhead
Affiliation:
Canterbury College, Christchurch, N.Z.

Extract

Mr. Shewring's recent articles on ‘Prose-rhythm and the Comparative Method’ (C.Q. XXIV, pp. 164 sqq.; XXV, pp. 12 sqq.) are gratifying in that they betoken a growing interest in the problems of a comparatively modern and fascinating study, and also an appreciation of the methods followed by different investigators. His estimate, however, of De Groot's services seems to me somewhat extravagant; his estimate of Zielinski's contributions unduly belittling (as I shall show below, he cannot have read Zielinski's Der constructive Rhythmus); while his references to my own work cause me to doubt whether he has grasped even the main contention of my book. I shall deal with all these points presently.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1932

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References

page 38 note 1 ‘Membra’ are subordinate clauses, ‘articuli’ are (roughly) phrases.

page 43 note 1 I do not take account of the first ‘foot,’ in which all sorts of licences are allowed. It is, as Christ (Mitrik der Griechen und Römer) says, ‘ein Ausnahmsfuss.’