| 单词 | blank verse |
| 例句 | The play was demanding because the dialogue was in blank verse. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z "The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens Stevens's sumptuous, glittering language takes blank verse and reinvents it. The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z It was my first experience of a poem in blank verse. 10 from Tennyson 2011-03-07T18:06:49Z A brief reference in the play to the inviolable British union even had to be tweaked slightly when “Scotland” was mentioned — not an easy thing to do with a play written in blank verse. Review: Crown Jewel: King Charles III in London 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z What we mean is that you continue to send us your quaterns, sonnets and blank verse just in case we change our minds. KidsPost contest: Go nuts for poetry in the Squirrel Haiku Contest 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z But the play, written in a buttery blank verse, isn’t all that interested in the gossip that’s regularly splashed on the cover of the Daily Mail. Charles is king, Harry's in trouble and Kate's taking charge in Pasadena Playhouse's royal winner 'King Charles III' 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z To my regret, I was only the second cleverest boy in the school, though I remain the only one to have rewritten the entire works of Aristophanes in blank verse. Digested read: Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg 2011-07-11T20:30:02Z Written in an unadorned style akin to blank verse, one can only marvel at the depth of Selby's understanding. Treasuring Hubert Selby Jr 2010-09-16T13:51:00Z What he brought to the early practice of blank verse was a real sense of poetry and passion. My hero: Christopher Marlowe 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Bardolators in search of blank verse in sylvan settings needn’t camp out on the ticket line for the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where Al Pacino is sinking his chops into Shylock. The Week Ahead: July 4 ? 10 2010-07-01T16:02:00Z For instance, he said, the playwright often divides two lines of blank verse into three discrete phrases, something Shakespeare did only rarely. Mike Bartlett Turns to Shakespeare to Voice His ‘King Charles III’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z And in this week’s Book Review Podcast, Arthur Phillips talks about Shakespeare, his novel and what it takes to write a full-length forgery in blank verse and Elizabethan diction. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: 'The Tragedy of Arthur' 2011-04-29T18:29:43Z Contemporaries praised the effortless smoothness of his blank verse. Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z “The Ruling Class” blithely employs Victorian-music-hall-like vignettes, while “King Charles III” is rendered in the rolling blank verse of Shakespearean theater. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Mike Bartlett’s speculative drama, written in Shakespearean blank verse, has a sharp grasp of politics, the private lives of very public figures, and the logical absurdity of the British monarchy. Top 10 Plays & Musicals 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z After assaying New York detectives and high-tech skullduggery in 1904’s “The Gates of Chance,” he attempted and then abandoned a drama in blank verse. The 1906 Novel That Imagined Present-Day New York 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z King Charles III by Mike Bartlett, which imagines a future monarchy and is written in Shakespeare-style blank verse, was crowned best new play. Mark Strong honoured for Miller role 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Concretely, this means that one moment, the five actors bear Russian names and knock back vodka shots; the very next, they are in another era and country, speaking in blank verse and thou’ing each other. Review: Shakespeare + Chekhov = ‘Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet’ 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Brown’s blank verse is supple yet restrained; it contains all its essential oils. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z They speak, in a strange blank verse, of the flesh and blood they don’t actually have, the “lively excretions of a pair of corpses in stultified congress.” Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Her book works because her blank verse, with its seemingly unstudied enjambments, is supple yet pared down. Beautiful Poems About a House of Horrors 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z “He also had a passion for new work, and for verse, and for someone to be writing for an actor his age in blank verse — he was in heaven.” Tim Pigott-Smith, Actor Who Put Prince Charles on the Throne, Dies at 70 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z His language seems so flexible that it takes you ages to realize that it’s still in blank verse. In ‘Love in the Wars,’ Achilles Battles an Amazon Queen 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z But what makes Bartlett’s script so mesmerizing is less its plot than its language—he has written the play in blank verse, like counterfeit Shakespeare. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The best jokes are also critical observations, eg that Shakespeare's Othello "is a man who seems curiously aware that he is speaking Shakespearean blank verse". How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z "Churchill spoke and wrote with a rhythm which made it almost poetical, "He arranged his notes for his speeches in a format closely resembling blank verse. Winston Churchill manuscript reveals his poetic side 2013-02-06T20:30:03Z Much of the script is in blank verse, with a heady surfeit of expanding metaphors, lyrical soliloquies and discreetly rhymed couplets. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Some clubs took down their minutes in blank verse. Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z The theater piece is written in deliberately Bard-like blank verse and alludes to Shakespearean plots. Trump gets a bold Shakespearean twist in new play ‘The 47th’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Those who went for blank verse seemed to think that anything, however banal, Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Capturing the pandemic and protests in poetry 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Godine’s sumptuous edition of Wordsworth’s autobiographical masterpiece, written in the best blank verse since Milton, is further enhanced with explanatory annotations and 130 period-appropriate paintings and drawings. Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Alongside the blank verse and stream of consciousness lyrics were doodles: pictures of whales, 70s glam-rock stars, 1920s decadent figures – all of my obsessions. Philip Hoare: a life in writing 2013-06-21T15:37:01Z As does the blank verse he manages to slip in between the standup. Poet, comedian, or both? 2010-08-27T16:10:00Z It is blank verse cast in Frost's trademark craggy voice, and it might be considered a local response to Eliot's more cosmopolitan "The Waste Land." The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z His psychologically nuanced blank verse soliloquies figure among the most essential playwriting pointers Marlowe left behind for his contemporary, a fellow scribe by the name of William Shakespeare. 'Doctor Faustus' sells his soul at a loss 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z If only the issue was one of rhyme versus blank verse or a ban on onomatopoeia – something that matters to poetry. In praise of ? impoverished poets 2011-07-27T22:03:34Z But Hollinghurst's translation, swapping Racine's rhyming alexandrine couplets for blank verse, avoids that by rendering the play in clear, simple language. Berenice – review 2012-10-02T23:48:56Z Why did Shakespeare reach for rhyme in his most romantic play, despite blank verse being favoured from the 1580s for its realism? How to teach … Shakespeare 2013-04-15T17:45:01Z I knew John Milton wrote those lines of blank verse I loved. Opinion | Johnny and Amber: Trouble in Paradise 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Taking precedence over encomiums and recitations, costumes and nostalgia is the book itself, 710 pages of inner monologue and dialogue, stream of consciousness, blank verse, Greek classics and the venues and byways of Dublin, 1904. For its 100th birthday, 'Ulysses' gets a makeover from a late, great Spanish artist 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z He wrote rhymes and blank verse, a brief report on the month of January and a book-length story in verse about colonialism and the birth of modern Hawaii. W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The book’s prose passages are interspersed with sections laid out as blank verse, inadvertently demonstrating that mundane reflections aren’t transformed into profundities merely by centring them on the page and inserting a few line breaks. Want to transform your life? Stop chasing perfection 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z There was a lot of free verse, maybe even some blank verse. The Worst Bad Poem? There’s a Contest for That 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z David Ferry more than succeeds in capturing the stateliness, as his rendering of the Proem, the epic’s introductory lines, into English blank verse shows: Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Inspired, Hanks’ Falstaff roused to life and improvised about birds in blank verse, Linklater said, talking about “the dove of peace on Noah's Ark” before working his way back to his original line. Et tu, raccoon? How wildlife can steal the scene at Shakespeare in the park 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Gender fluidity is as natural in Shakespeare’s plays as blank verse. Review: 'Midsummer Night's Dream' with a lesbian twist at New Swan Shakespeare in Irvine 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z At its best, whether in blank verse or in a 39-line sestina, his work was lyrical and bracing. J.D. McClatchy, elegant poet and ‘literary polymath,’ dies at 72 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Having acted in plays written in blank verse, lyrics and prose, he knew the conventions of drama from the inside. Shakespeare himself may have annotated 'Hamlet' book, claims researcher 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z A Shakespearean history play for a history that hasn't happened yet, Mike Bartlett's 2014 blank verse drama "King Charles III" makes its way Sunday night to the PBS showcase "Masterpiece." Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' puts Britain's royal family in a smart, dark Shakespearean frame 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z In blank verse, Ms. Williams, whose account is verified on the site, described the proposal on the “isaidyes” subreddit, which is dedicated to engagement stories. Serena Williams Engaged to Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Her no-nonsense blank verse skewers our president-elect, among other popular local targets. Welcome to the 2016 serving of ‘Ham for the Holidays’ 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Dee Davis, a New Yorker, composed this piece of blank verse: Everyday Words That Make You Go ‘Ew’ 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Williams’s vernacular free verse and Stevens’s sumptuous blank verse long remained magnetic poles of American poetic form. The Thrilling Mind of Wallace Stevens 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Playwright Mike Bartlett, who wrote the play in blank verse, joked in accepting the award that he wanted to express "thanks to the Royal Family for not closing us down for treason." Kinks musical, Miller play are big winners at Oliviers 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z A translation in blank verse, by William Munford, of Richmond, Va., appeared in Boston some twenty years ago, but does not seem to have attracted the attention it deserved. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z For dramatic purposes blank verse was almost exclusively used, although the French had adopted the rhymed alexandrine for their plays. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z It tells the story in blank verse, which we have almost word for word in prose in “The Sherley Brothers,” viz. that of Sir Thomas Sherley the elder gambling away his extensive property. William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground 2012-03-29T02:00:13.153Z But this is just the rhythm of our English blank verse, in essential type; ten syllables to the line or group; and our primitive talker is speaking in the true English heroic rhythm. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z His style is simple, unaffected, and vigorous—his blank verse manly and idiomatic—his sentiments both noble and pathetic—and his images poetic and appropriate. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z A comparison of the following lines, with the original American Declaration of Independence, will show that the earnest and impassioned language of real life is sometimes closely assimilated to blank verse. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z Prose may be anything else, but it must not be bad blank verse. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Joyzelle, another dramatised essay, is again written in the irritating blank verse which Maeterlinck at this stage of his career seems to have grown perversely fond of. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z It is a fine poem, written in blank verse, like an English tragedy, and not in Dutch Alexandrines; but it is undramatic, and has not held the boards. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z And anyway you can't expect me to burst into blank verse the moment you arrive, like a canary that's been uncovered by the housemaid. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z A faux Greek chorus relates Ponzi’s life in blank verse interspersed with rapid dialogue and jazzy interludes. Madoff Role Model Charles Ponzi Plots on Paris Stage: Review 2012-02-08T02:46:08Z None of the other plays, which are in blank verse, was intended for the stage. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z As a reading play Sister Beatrice is ruined by the species of blank verse in which it is said to be written. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z It left him abundant leisure for literary pursuits, which included the design of a poem in blank verse on India. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z It needn't all be in blank verse, and I think little Truscott would be so good as the Bishop. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z It was dictated in seventeen days, in the years 1770-1772, and, in its final redaction, consists of eight cantos of blank verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z "The Fatal Curiosity," in blank verse, tells of a frightful murder of a son by a father at the instigation of the mother. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Monna Vanna is written, partly, in the same kind of blank verse as Sister Beatrice—very poor stuff considered as poetry, and very troublesome to read as prose. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z In January 1786, Cowper issued a prospectus for publishing a translation of Homer into English blank verse. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z But the foe of rhyme is by no means limited to blank verse in support of his thesis: experiments in unrhymed metre are by no means new. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Shakespeare's English kings and Italian dukes trumpet Elizabethan blank verse. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Byron and Shelley both attempted to free their dramatic blank verse from conceits and artificialities, and to give it directness and lack of ornamentation corresponding to natural speech. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z And so he lived in blank verse, and conducted himself in the heroic metre. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z And the first hundred lines of “Hyperion” have no slight affinity, in colouring and cadence, to the Tennysonian blank verse. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Here it is in the form of blank verse:— The King to-day received the Ministers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 13, 1872 2011-12-12T03:00:30.070Z Shakespeare and Bacon and Raleigh met in the Mermaid Tavern for the purpose of turning out a few yards of Elizabethan blank verse in the post-Tennysonian style of Mr. Alfred Noyes. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The later blank verse plays, though to a large extent based on French romances, envelop the love interest in a Tourneurian medley of depravity and horror. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Think of Shakespeare laboriously committing to memory the blank verse of Jonson! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z It is a series—in blank verse, always melodious and often exquisite, giving the main incidents of the old Arthurian legend, which as a boy he had read with delight in old Malory’s prose epic. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z The first five pages had gone, and there was another page missing, but some 400 lines of blank verse remained. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z As a poet Grimald is memorable as the earliest follower of Surrey in the production of blank verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The play is written in blank verse, already used in Surrey's translation from the Æneid, and perhaps adopted in imitation of the unrhymed verse of the Italian tragedies. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z His principal work, The Sabbath, a sacred and descriptive poem in blank verse, is characterized by devotional feeling and by happy delineation of Scottish scenery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z They had fought for the ownership of the Wordsworthian line, the “weakest blank verse in the language”: A Mr. Wilkinson, a clergyman. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z There is no blank verse in French poetry. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z The Publishers Circular says:—At the advanced age of sixty-five, the Earl of Derby, leader of the Tory party in England, has published a translation of Homer, in blank verse. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z He brought not only blank verse but poetry to the English drama, and the greatness of its style dates from his achievement. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Oh yes, I'm writing a play in blank verse. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z And the same must be said of the “Song of the Three Sisters,” published and afterwards suppressed, though the blank verse of its prelude has undoubted quality. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Its thousand lines of blank verse roll through the soul like the stately music of a cathedral organ. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z His blank verse in Blenheim has neither much force, nor much elegance. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Marlowe's themes, characters, and blank verse found many imitators, while Kyd's plays encouraged the presentation of stories of ghosts and revenge similar to those in Seneca and his English imitators. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The play is genuinely dramatic, and its impressiveness is heightened by the dignity of the blank verse. The Deluge and Other Poems 2011-10-15T02:00:29.350Z His only escape from rhyme has been the larger utterance of blank verse. Open Water 2011-10-14T02:00:31.043Z This part of the play I have rendered into blank verse—a metrical form far better suited to the English drama, and also more adapted to the genius of our language. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z But, great heavens,—" "It was a book of plays, Mr. Herrick; blank verse and Roman soldiery—with orations! "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z The doggerel rhyme favored in the popular drama was to give place to blank verse, and the jigging clowns to heroic themes and "high astounding terms." Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z His new work condenses into four acts of vigorous and flexible blank verse, always animated in movement, and skilfully wrought together into a fine unity of action.... The Deluge and Other Poems 2011-10-15T02:00:29.350Z He is a poet and justifies his use of poetic speech; he is eloquent, incisive, has a blank verse of his own which he writes with increasing mastery.... King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z To these are added a few shorter pieces, chiefly in blank verse, each of which seems to us proportionately more successful than the more ambitious ones. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z You know, she tried us out in blank verse the other day, and I made a hit. The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z It is written partly in blank verse, partly in rhyme, and partly in prose. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z "Written in blank verse, that is both flexible and dramatic, the author gives an effect of spaciousness, combined with tense feeling." The Deluge and Other Poems 2011-10-15T02:00:29.350Z The opening description, in blank verse, conveys a vague but not very powerful impression of sublimity. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z I always use blank verse for my complaints.— The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Author of a philosophical poem in blank verse on The Pleasures of the Imagination. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z If Marlowe gave sweep and grandeur to blank verse, Peele brought a sweetness of cadence and, as Professor Ward observes, "a vivacity of fancy and a variety of imagery." Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z There is no such thing as cultured, reposeful conversation in this land; everybody sings his remarks as if he were reciting blank verse after the manner of an imperfect elocutionist. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z “It is a long story; it is in blank verse, too, and you like rhymes.” Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z Ibsen, it may be added, composed his first tragedy, 'Catiline,' in three acts, altho it was in blank verse, thus early revealing his characteristic independence of tradition. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Author of a much admired blank verse translation of Dante. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z Rhymed plays continued to appear occasionally, but blank verse was henceforth recognized as the proper medium for tragedy. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z He bellowed in blank verse, while I blew the kitchen fire with the bellows. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z He makes his blank verse his servant, and it has the stage merit of possessing the freedom of prose while retaining the impassioned movement of poetry. A Night in Avignon 2011-07-07T02:00:27.090Z We are now so accustomed to blank verse in Shakspere's plays, tragic and comic, that we accept it almost without noticing it. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z His verse is mainly lyrical, his love songs being his best; nevertheless he first introduced blank verse into Eng. poetry. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z In each a tragic story is told in blank verse, audaciously Shakespearean, and this is mixed with broad comedy or farce in prose. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Despite the efforts of Henry Arthur Jones and some other living writers, tragic verse, blank verse, the impression of which I have tried to characterise, is dead. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z He was the translator of Goethe's Iphigenia, which was published in the Southern Literary Messenger, and has left among other manuscripts, an original drama, entitled "Viola," written in blank verse. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z By long habit, we have come to consider blank verse as "natural" in a poetic play, especially when that play sets before us heroic figures of the remote past. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z His Tamburlaine was the first blank verse play acted. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z Shakespeare here realized the ideal toward which English tragedy under the leadership of Marlowe had been struggling, the presentation of human greatness in blank verse beautiful and dramatic. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z "And then that darling Walter Lisson, looking like a Greek god, drew his stiletto, and delivered, oh! such an exquisite soliloquy over her tomb—all in blank verse—like heavenly music on the organ!" Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama 2011-06-29T02:00:22.990Z Except in this poem, we do not remember ever to have seen dactylic blank verse attempted in the English language. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z They have gazed at dozens of tragedy-queens dying on the stage and expiring in appropriate blank verse, and I never wanted to wipe them. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Surrey could not therefore have designed the 305 pauses and the cadences of blank verse in his first choice, nor will they be found in his last. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z His structure is loose and conversational, and his blank verse overruns the borders of the rigid pentameter and approaches the irregularity of prose. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z "Why, he's got a voice like a raven, and can no more deliver blank verse than he can fly." Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama 2011-06-29T02:00:22.990Z Tennyson cannot equal the stateliness of Milton; but Milton is the only poet with whom, in respect of blank verse, he need greatly fear comparison. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z In the Shaksperian drama the underlying convention is that the persons of the play belong to a race of people who always express themselves poetically in English blank verse. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Dr. Nott, with editorial ardour, considers that the unfinished model of Surrey was the prototype of all subsequent blank verse, and was also the origin of its introduction into dramatic composition. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z From Marlowe to Shelley there has been an unbroken continuity in themes, stories, types of persons, nature of emotional appeal, structure, and even in the blank verse. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z He praises Surrey's blank verse rendering of the fourth book of the �neid, but regrets that, in disregarding quantity, it falls short of the "perfect and true versifying." A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The Idylls were, as they still are, Tennyson’s greatest experiment in blank verse; and next to Milton’s Paradise Lost they are the finest body of non-dramatic blank verse in the language. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z But I wouldn't do much in blank verse if I were you. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z To both these noblemen our poets owe their emancipation from rhyme; but the rhythmical artifices of blank verse were not discovered in the monotonous, uncadenced lines of its inventors. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z As Wilde left it, it was the latter part of a play in one act in blank verse, beginning with the surprisal of the lovers by the husband. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Monologues and dramatic poems are frequently found in blank verse. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z In point of length it was the most important experiment Tennyson had yet made in the most difficult but most flexible form of English metre, blank verse. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Doubtless I have too great fondness for great lines—your great lines—and they occur less frequently in your blank verse than in your rhyme—most frequently in your quatrains, those of sonnets included. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z And here, for the first time, blank verse was recited on the stage. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Very popular some years ago, when the heroine made farewell speeches in blank verse, and died to slow music. Mr. Punch in Bohemia 2011-04-16T02:00:17.803Z In blank verse there is greater variation of the feet than in almost any other form of poetry, and yet in this the length of line is most fixed. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Almost every number contained long, nightmare poems in Cowperian blank verse by Delta or some other tedious unknown. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z I don't think it your best work by much—don't think any of your blank verse as good as most of your rhyme—but it's not a146 thing to need apology. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Nor can it be conceded that blank verse was wholly unknown among us. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z In his development of blank verse he contributed greatly to the success of the drama. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z How rarely do we find an Edwin Booth who can give the spirit of Shakespeare’s blank verse! Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Ten thousand lines of blank verse is a serious thing. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z You need not blackguard your poem, "A Visitor," though126 I could wish you had not chosen blank verse. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Dr. Nott further claims the honour for Surrey of the invention of heroic blank verse; Surrey’s version of Virgil being unrhymed. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Marlowe made of blank verse an instrument that would sound any note of pathos or sublimity. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Her heart beat so terribly hard she felt smothered, but she recited a blank verse poem. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z At length Colman published a translation in familiar blank verse, in which he has succeeded extremely well. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z In the number of run-on lines and couplets—a scheme nearer blank verse than the couplet—there is certainly a striking correspondence. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z I know not why a king should be better qualified than a private man to make kings talk in blank verse.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z In blank verse the language has to be tortured a little, or it will read like prose. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z For the moment, however, it is not blank verse or Elizabethan poetry that is on her mind, but words of a somewhat cruder nature. Swearing 'no big deal' - Mirren 2011-03-04T08:57:02Z That of Mr Good, printed in 1805, is in blank verse, and it may well be doubted if this preference was conducive to the successful execution of his purpose. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z In this reaction against the school of Pope, as also in the use of blank verse, he showed great independence in discarding approved models. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Three of these were prose-comedies; one, a tragi-comedy, in blank verse and prose; one, an opera in rhyme; five, tragedies in blank verse; and one, the rhymed tragedy above referred to. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z It was written in blank verse and proved a most harrowing recital of the horrors he had suffered at the hands of the tyrant regent. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z And, over and over again, if I may say so, gives to the blank verse of your dramas the same magical quality that a more stately treatment of it can never confer. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z By skilful variation of pauses, such as we find in Milton, Tennyson, and most of our modern writers of blank verse. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z It is a curious fact, that the earliest blank verse extant was written by Saint Francis. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z The blank verse of his two translated Aeneids, like all that written previous to Peele, gave little inkling of the latencies of the measure which was to become the cardinal one of English poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z And Joey is very nice, even though he doesn't quite talk in blank verse. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z The unrhymed iambic pentameter known as blank verse is really a form of free verse; it is a modified form of the unrhymed classical measure. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Massinger thought in blank verse because he was a dramatist rather than because he was a poet. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Comedies of Aristophanes translated into familiar blank verse, with notes, preliminary observations on each play, etc. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z Two of its species, the rhymed heroic play and the rehandling of Shakespeare Tragedy. in blank verse, were also brought to their utmost by Dryden, though in both he had many companions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z I'm afraid I would have a tendency that would grow to address Papa in blank verse. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z This, however, practically amounts to saying that blank verse is after all a great deal like prose; indeed, it may be arranged like modern free verse with great ease. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It is probable that Field wrote the prose scenes in the play, and possibly the songs; nor would I deny that the regular ten-syllable blank verse of such passages as Act II., Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Translated into English blank verse by William Michael Rossetti, with introductions and notes. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z Thomas Otway and Nathaniel Lee, both of whom generally used blank verse, are the other tragic writers of note, children indeed of the extreme old age of the drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z I did so, in the blank verse form, and sent the "poem" to the "Gentleman's Magazine," and this I think was my first attempt to get into print. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z For blank verse is but a restricted prose, because there is as often as not no natural pause at the end of the line, and because other feet may be substituted for the iambus. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Sir Sidney Lee414 says his blank verse is “vigorous and musical”; to me it seems too often ragged and halting. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Thus in the early plays Shakespeare arranged his blank verse so that the sense ends with each line and he was much given to rhymed couplets at the close of each long speech. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z To these calls his blank verse responds at every point. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z To Surrey, English literature owes two important literary innovations--the introduction of the sonnet and the use of polished blank verse. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Any passage of blank verse can naturally also be put into modern free verse, into the free rhythms of Whitman, for example. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Boyle says that Milton's blank verse owes much to the study of it. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z As Shakespeare advanced in command over the difficult blank verse he showed less desire to use rhyme. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Throughout these years blank verse contended with rhyme, which Shakespeare after a while abandoned save for special purposes, as though he had exhausted its honey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It was in blank verse and ran to about sixteen pages. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Our English poets who write in blank verse would have done even better to use prose, rhythmical or unrhythmical. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Massinger's blank verse is equal to all the emotions which the author can express and kindle. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z In no other way will you be able to savor the beauty and the melody of the blank verse. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z At the time when the Popean couplet was at the height of its vogue he deliberately put it aside in favour of the higher poetic power of blank verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The story used is thoroughly dramatic, and that part of the composition that is in blank verse is of a notable degree of smoothness. The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States 2011-01-26T03:00:29.717Z We observe that the great prose passages of Shakespeare are poetry even though not in blank verse. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z In the two plays which have come down to us from Field there is much passable blank verse. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Corson believed in arousing interest in Shakespeare by reading extracts from the best plays, with running comment on the passages that best illustrated the poet's command of all the resources of blank verse. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z But Daniel employs rime royal and terza rima, while some modern epistles have been cast in short iambic rhymed measures or in blank verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z He wrote the blankest kind of blank verse, and the most solemnly salubrious sonnets, and the loveliest lyrics! Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z English poetry should free itself from the bondage of blank verse, and use prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z For although the chorus of villagers was frightful, and Faust and Mephistopheles spouted and declaimed blank verse at each other—whole pages of Goethe, yet the acting was superb. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The Earl of Derby translated the Iliad into good blank verse, but this becomes very tiresome before you get through a single book. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z He projected an epic poem in blank verse, "Cortez, or the Conqueror of Mexico, and the Inca's Daughter." A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z The same chapter refers to various other ancient forms of the story, one of the most important being that of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated into English blank verse by Edward King. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z However, next to free verse blank verse is the best medium that English poetry has yet found. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z And Lord Southampton took up a fragment of paper containing some few lines of blank verse. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z It is written in blank verse, easy and melodious. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z But his great ambition was to introduce blank verse into Bengali. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z She longed to invite him to pour out his woes; and at this moment it would scarcely have surprised her if his speech had sounded like a rhythmical monologue, a long lament in blank verse. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z They deviated more than Shakespeare, who did not always confine himself to the iambic foot and pentameter line in his blank verse. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z “Heavens, I hope it’s not going to be in blank verse!” Where the Path Breaks Cowper's Homer in blank verse is also intolerably dull. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z It is blank verse and has 85 lines in it. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl The remaining books contain a number of pieces in the Italian manner, the longest of these being Hero y Leander, a poem in blank verse, based on Musaeus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The great English blank verse poets and nearly all the poets of England in the nineteenth century used this medium, and are really our supreme prose poets. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The iambic blank verse of Italy was, however, mainly hendecasyllabic, not decasyllabic, and under French influences the habit of rhyme soon returned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Rhymes in the blank verse give clue to order of the plays, 18. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Islwyn’s Y storm, though uneven, is full of powerful passages, and he was a master of blank verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" As a preface to these two little works, I composed an epistle in blank verse, in which I dedicated them to a certain well-known poverty-stricken citizen of Venice, called Pietro Carati. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The more beautiful and natural medium is prose, for blank verse is but a confined prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Except, however, when he is stirred by a particularly vivid emotion, the blank verse of Marlowe continues to be monotonous and uniform. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Earl of, blank verse translation of the Iliad, 34.Dickens, Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Its blank verse, however, cannot represent the close woven texture and the stately music of the terza rima of the original. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Mazzini spoke the language of poetry; not in hexameters or blank verse, but still it was poetry. Fragments of an Autobiography All these selections are in impassioned prose and are as much entitled to the rank of poetry as are most of the blank verse of the drama. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The most intricate and therefore the most interesting blank verse which has been written is that of Milton in the great poems of his later life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The other, Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, was a ruggeder bantling, containing almost the first blank verse poems ever written in Scottish dialect. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. Nay, not Shakespearean blank verse itself later than the histories. The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded "Ah, but you did; you sent me the substance and put it into blank verse." Fragments of an Autobiography These poets, however, are merely less rhythmical than the alleged masters of blank verse. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z His first poem, 'Wine,' published when he was twenty-three, is not included in his collected works: perhaps because it is written in blank verse; perhaps because his maturer taste condemned it. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 I ought not to forget here that in 1537 a passage from this poem was rendered into English blank verse, and is an early monument of our language. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 No wonder Jonson's blank verse is the most horribly disagreeable product in literature, and indicates his most prosaic mood as surely as his shorter rhymed measures indicate his poetic mood. The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded As if from an inner necessity, the balance of rhymed couplets gave way to the impetuous march of blank verse; “strong lines” were as inevitably called for as strong situations and strong characters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" The experiment of arranging blank verse in the form of prose and of putting prose in the metre of blank verse has been often tried with success. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The play is written in excellent blank verse, and is the first example of the application of Surrey’s innovation to drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" It has a prologue and an epilogue which are in prose, while the speeches are in poetic form, and are printed like the blank verse of the Greek or English drama. The Bible Story Not nineteenth century blank verse, of course, nor indeed, with a very few exceptions, any post-Shakespearean blank verse. The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded Charles Lamb describes his old friend, George Dyer, as purchasing a bulky volume of blank verse solely on the ground that there must be some good things in an epic of six thousand lines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 The virtues of blank verse are the virtues of rhythmic prose, which is still freer and more natural than blank verse, just as blank verse is preferable to the heroic couplet. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Of all the arts Poetic, that which was least understood between the Elizabethan age and the second quarter of this century was the art of writing blank verse. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) In much of old English dramatic literature, when the mass of the composition is in blank verse or even in prose, particular emphasis is given by closing the scene in a couplet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" I am quite sure that any one who is to recover the charm of blank verse must frankly go back to its beginnings and start a literary pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded The conversation should have run upon the sharks, the hula hula, typhoon and the submarine barrage, by rights; not upon the history in blank verse of the founder of Buddhism. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday It is poetry not because it is in blank verse or has rhythm, but because the ideas are stated in an emotional and ecstatic manner. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Along with this came the substitution in the drama of rhyme for blank verse. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 It has been considered proper for didactic, descriptive and satirical poetry, although in the course of the 19th century blank verse largely took its place. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" It may be asked why I have written The Admirable Bashville in blank verse. The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded The "epic" cesura is quite as characteristic of dramatic blank verse as of epic. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History If the passage had been written in blank verse it could not have been improved. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He has always wondered why anybody allowed it to tear their life to tatters, as a bad actor tears a fine piece of blank verse. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June The condensed vigor, so indispensable to blank verse, the skillful variation of the pause, the masterly structure of the period, and all the occult mysteries of the art, can, perhaps, be best learned from Akenside. Coelebs In Search of a Wife If I were there I should grind knives or write blank verse, or—— But at least you do not bathe? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) The problem of the relative values of rimed and unrimed verse will come up in connection with the history of the heroic couplet and of blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The entire passage is great poetry, not because of the blank verse but because of the mystical pantheistic ecstasy. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Joan of Arc, Madoc, Roderick, have not escaped that curse of blank verse which only Milton, and he not always, has conquered in really long poems. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) She would clap him into the Psychopathic before he had time for even half as much blank verse as Hamlet had. Old Crow Then Adam thus:—Hereupon the anonymous author puts into the mouth of the great progenitor of the human race a history of the Creation, in blank verse, in accordance with the Mosaic and orthodox account. Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Some justification for its use is to be found in the wretched condition into which blank verse had fallen. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Often the prose rhythm is more marked than the rhythm of metre, as you may find out by comparing passages from Whitman or Pater with let us say some of the blank verse of Wordsworth. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It may be questioned whether, fine as The Revolt of Islam is, the Spenserian stanza was quite so well suited as the "Pindaric" or as blank verse, or as lyrical measures, to Shelley's genius. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Rhyme is essential to Chinese poetry; there is no such thing as blank verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Although in blank verse, it is, in fact, a lyrical effusion; an ode on the rapid progress and final triumph of the Gospel. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The effect is therefore closely allied to that of blank verse; the rimes, not being emphasized by marked pauses, serving rather as means of tone color than as organizers of the verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It is an easy matter to arrange any fine poetical prose in blank verse or irregular rhythmical lines. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z No such book of English blank verse, with the doubtful exception of the Seasons, had been seen since Milton. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Every style seemed his—blank verse and rhyme, ode and epic, lyrical and tragical, satiric and elegiac, sacred and profane, sublime and ridiculous, he was equally good at all. History of Morgan's Cavalry Extempore blank verse, with a little practice, would be found as easy in English as rhyming is in Italian. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. In general, the early experiments in blank verse suggest—what they must often have seemed to their writers—the mere use of the decasyllabic couplet deprived of its rime. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Nor can I understand why the parts of Shakespeare's plays which are in prose and are often superior to many portions in blank verse should also not be called poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But the great bulk of them consisted of the curious blank verse, now narrative, now ostensibly dramatic monologue, which the poet had always affected, and which he now seemed to affect more and more. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) It is the only blank verse in the language, except Milton’s, that for itself is readable. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature It puts the story of the Norman Conquest of England into a dramatic form and into good blank verse, with sound and sensible treatment of the subject, and that is all. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Blank verse is "properly but measured prose"; and rime may be "made as natural as blank verse, by the well placing of the words, etc." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History One of the reasons why English verse poetry excels French is because blank verse, a more natural medium than the rhymed Alexandrines, became the chief vehicle for poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Such lyrics as "The splendour falls" and "Tears, idle tears," such blank verse as that of the closing passage, would raise to the topmost heights of poetry whatever subject it was spent upon. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The measured cadence and regular sing-song of rhyme or blank verse have destroyed, as it were, their natural ear for the mere characteristic harmony which ought to subsist between the sound and the sense. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Another, on the rainbow, was in blank verse and impressively didactic in its tone. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects The real question is whether rimed verse is a more imaginative and highly poetic form than blank verse; modern opinion would unanimously answer in the negative. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In fact, the blank verse of the later Elizabethan dramatists is really prose, for it is less rhythmical than that of Shakespeare. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z At the end of the 'Allegory' in the present copy are six lines of blank verse in Capell's handwriting and subscribed with his initials. Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge Read any other blank verse but Milton’s,—Thomson’s, Young’s, Cowper’s, Wordsworth’s,—and it will be found, from the want of the same insight into “the hidden soul of harmony,” to be mere lumbering prose. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The abundance of rimed couplet, combined wherever there is intensity of feeling with a perfect form of blank verse, is reminiscent of the earlier play. An Introduction to Shakespeare Its use at this time, when the revival of blank verse by Thomson and others had seriously affected the prestige of the couplet, was a sign of Goldsmith's reactionary tendency toward the school of Pope. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Dickens had a tendency, as also did Ruskin, to drop unconsciously into blank verse in his prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z This passage is in reality blank verse pure and simple. Memoirs of Life and Literature Milton’s “Paradise Lost” is perhaps the best example we have of continuous blank verse. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Before him, blank verse had no advantages to offer in compensation for the abandonment of rime. An Introduction to Shakespeare It is an error to assume that there was no good blank verse written in this period when the drama in general is said to have been in a state of "decadence." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History I have no intention of using this means of showing that blank verse is really a more modulated prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The same criticism was provoked by her second volume, Denzil Place, a novel in blank verse interwoven with songs. Memoirs of Life and Literature It is hard to distinguish good blank verse from bad and it is so easy to write the bad. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers The use of blank verse in English when Shakespeare began to write was a comparatively new practice, and, like all new inventions, for a time it was only imperfectly understood. An Introduction to Shakespeare It appears from this note that Milton regarded his heroic blank verse as a different measure from the familiar dramatic blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Every great passage in Shakespeare in blank verse would have continued to be poetry in regular prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He printed it in measured lines, without, however, changing the place of a single word, and it produced blank verse. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Write it in blank verse and crowd the action with incidental songs. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Shakespeare paid North the sincerest compliment by borrowing, particularly in Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus, not only the general story, but whole speeches with only those changes necessary for making blank verse out of prose. An Introduction to Shakespeare In general, the blank verse of all these poets shows the influence of the couplet and lacks flexibility. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History That is what makes our English blank verse so much like prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But the greatest offence of all is, what I say of blank verse.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors I was, however, at ease enough to write a sublime piece of blank verse on the cataract; and, proud of my production, I attempted reading it to Cousin William. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. "To a Critic of Shelley," by Helen H. Salls, is a long piece of beautiful blank verse, marred only by one accidental rhyme. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Neander, representing Dryden, answers that this line of argument will equally forbid blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History All blank verse is as near prose as any metrical medium that has been hitherto introduced. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Why, come to that, he pouched Your eagle's feather of blank verse, and lit His Friar Bacon's little magic lamp At the Promethean fire of Faustus. Collected Poems Volume Two Expression: Observe that this poem is written in blank verse. Eighth Reader Miss Owen's "Ode to Trempealeau Mountain" is a noble specimen of heroic blank verse, containing some very striking antithetical lines. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 English blank verse is perhaps more various and plastic than any other national metre. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It is enough to say of Liberty, that it contains more than three thousand lines of unreadable blank verse. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) In one of the 'Ramblers' we are informed that the accent in blank verse ought properly to rest upon every second syllable throughout the whole line. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) In place of the classic mould, they tried stanzas, sonnets, ballads, blank verse, with the roughness and subdivisions of the primitive poets. . . . Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer "To Florence Shepphird", also by Mr. Cole, is a rather long piece of blank verse, containing many beautiful passages. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Cowper: Alexander Selkirk, 34*; anapests of, 35; blank verse of, 240 f.; English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He deserves some credit for his skill in handling a variety of metres as well as blank verse, in which his principal poem is written. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Anybody can write blank verse of a kind, because it so easily slips into prose; and that is why good blank verse is so rare. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) He was afterwards sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, where, at the age of twenty, he received the chancellor's medal for a poem in blank verse, entitled "Timbuctoo." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer "At Last", by Muriel Wilson, is a blank verse poem of much merit. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Marlowe is universally and rightly regarded as the first English poet who used blank verse with the hand of a master, and showed its possibilities. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History If he be the author, it is the only example of blank verse which we have from his pen. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) If the ideal hero is always to live in fancy-land and talk in blank verse, Adams has clearly no right to the title; nor, indeed, has Don Quixote. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) This short extract is given as a sample of the first blank verse written in the English language. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer I will now give you the old Translation, which shall effectually confute Mr. Pope: for our Author hath done little more than throw the very words of North into blank verse. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare "From this time on," says Mr. Gosse, "Dryden's blank verse was more severe than any which had been used, except by Milton, since Ben Jonson." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History "Tom is good at a catastrophe," said she, "but he can't carry on the blank verse proper to the after situation." A Noble Woman He leisurely delivers fourteen lines of blank verse about the "shade of melancholy boughs," "the creeping hours of time," and "blushing, hides his sword!" Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. The comedies he wrote in prose; the earliest tragedies in blank verse, followed by several in rhyme, and, after these, others in blank verse. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer He seems, says Dennis, to have been the very original of our English tragical harmony, that is, the harmony of blank verse, diversified often by dissyllable and trissyllable terminations. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare His blank verse in especial cannot receive too much commendation. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It is thus that Dryden deals with Sir Robert, as if blank verse in Serious Plays had not a leg to stand on. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Neither play lived, and Antonio, written in a sort of journalese, cut up into blank verse lines, was too frigid to survive the first night. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle The 'Book of Ruth' and the 'History of Joseph' done into blank verse are really beautiful idylls. Bunyan Green, ?, author of “Specimen of a new version of the Paradise Lost into blank verse,” 180, 333. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare "The blank verse of Cowper's Task is admirably adapted to the theme," says Professor Corson. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History True, that "All for Love" and "Don Sebastian" are in blank verse, and may be said, after a fashion, to be fine plays. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 "My Lord, when I hear him spouting blank verse through his nose!..." Changing Winds A Novel This poem and that entitled "The Fountain," with one or two others in blank verse, were intended by the author as portions of a larger poem. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition When he broke down, he would declare that it was quite a simple matter to improvise blank verse.... Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists Professor Ward speaks, however, of the "lumbering movement" of Cowper's blank verse as being in contrast to "the neatness and ease of his rhymed couplets." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Having thus carried things all his own way, he triumphantly declares, that the advantages which rhyme has over blank verse are so many, that "it were lost time to name them." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Nay then, God be wi' you an you talk in blank verse. An Old Sailor's Yarns It may be esteemed presumptuous in the author of this volume to attempt a translation of any part of Homer in blank verse after that of Cowper. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition They observed that though Dante used it, Shakespeare did not, and Milton did not, in their greatest works; and a good half of the time the first-rate moderns managed very well with blank verse. Imaginary Interviews The last of the specimens just quoted illustrates his use of blank verse for short lyrical poems,—an unusual and notable achievement. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant; he is tempted to say many things which might be better omitted, or at least shut up in fewer words. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 B�rger attempted a translation of the Iliad in iambic blank verse, and a prose translation of 'Macbeth.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 In blank verse as used by Shakespeare we have really an epitome of the development of the measure in connection with the English drama. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Two sources of this sudden strength were the freedom of blank verse and the presence of a genuine emotion. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Mayor, J. B.: Chapters on English Metre cited, 409; on Browning's blank verse, 249; on Ellis's view of accent, 4 n.; on substitutions of feet, 60. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History His retort, in as far as the question of rhyme or blank verse is concerned, was, however, to say the best of it, very feeble. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 "There is such a thing as blank verse, Mr. Crow," said Miss Becker, smiling in a most superior way. Anderson Crow, Detective In his earlier plays the blank verse is often similar to that of Gorboduc, the first English tragedy. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar How different from the easy, graceful melody of Cowper’s blank verse! The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete It has been well observed, that every one who declaims warmly, or grows intent upon a subject, rises into a sort of blank verse or measured prose.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History That blank verse is better adapted than any other for the drama, has been settled by Shakspeare. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 “This is a very modern gathering, and blank verse is not appreciated.” Dorothy's Triumph It is a significant fact that in many of Shakespeare's earlier plays there is little or no prose, and that the proportion of prose to blank verse increases with the decrease of rhyme. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar He rattled off some lines of blank verse in praise of the liberal air that set Master Vallance staring before he resumed plain speech. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel Obviously the same system can be applied to blank verse, with the omission of the second category in the table. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History His heroic plays are bad, not because they are in rhyme, but because they are absurd; the rhyme is their chief merit; 'tis not possible to dream what they had been in blank verse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The writer has gained inspiration from themes which inspired Dante; he has sung sweet songs and musical lyrics; and whether writing in rhyme or blank verse, has proved himself a master of his instrument. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts In Shakespeare's later plays the blank verse breaks away from all bondage to formal line limits, and the organic continuity is found in a succession of great metrical periods. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar It is difficult to think of Shakspere "bombasting out a blank verse" like this. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Another point about blank verse is that it admits of no mediocrity; it must be either clay or gold.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It may here, once for all, be remarked, that in all his disquisitions, by "verse" he usually means rhyme as opposed to blank verse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The blank verse is stately, yet sweet, free, graceful, and never undignified. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts While in Germany he made a translation in blank verse of the first part of Faust; but, forestalled by other translations, it was never published. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Two of his interposed or occasional lyrics will be given later: a blank verse passage may find room here:— Bethsabe. A History of Elizabethan Literature Professor Corson quotes an interesting passage from a letter of Coleridge, giving an account of a conversation in which Wordsworth expressed his view of this sort of blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But he who wants judgment to confine his fancy in blank verse, may want it as much in rhyme; and he who has it will avoid errors in both kinds. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 In the later blank verse of Shakespeare, broken lines and redundant syllables are numerous, but under his hand they become things of beauty, and “the irregularity is the foundation of the larger and nobler rule.” Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 Some of it is written in a loose, swinging couplet, some in quatrains, some in blank verse, some in the choice, picked prose made the fashion by Lyly. William Shakespeare These, slightly changed from blank verse to rhyme, appeared long afterwards with his minor poems of 1590. A History of Elizabethan Literature In Milton's own prefatory note to Paradise Lost, he called his blank verse "English heroic verse without rime." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History True; but neither does he in blank verse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 This Rhyme is made up of blank verse as measured by the white man's standard. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Tennyson’s blank verse seems at its best to combine the beauties of the Miltonic and the Wordsworthian line; while nothing is so rare in his work as a Shakespearean line. Old Familiar Faces Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, which has been denied to him—an interesting play on the rare basis of the old romance—is written not in blank verse but in the fourteener. A History of Elizabethan Literature Cowper prided himself, not without reason, on the individuality of his blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History To such a degree as that all the other forms often slip from one's recollection; and, to speak strictly, blank verse must be called the rule; while all other forms are diverse exceptions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Both translations are in blank verse, but that of the latter is very blank indeed, and possesses little in common with Milton's style, except the absence of rhyme. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. We agree with all Professor Jebb says in praise of Tennyson’s blank verse. Old Familiar Faces Up to his time the blank verse line always, and the semi-couplet in heroics, or member of the more complicated stanza usually, were either stiff or nerveless. A History of Elizabethan Literature In Keats at last," says Mr. Symonds, "we find again that inner music which is the soul of true blank verse.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Even here the two true lovers hold their few short colloquies in blank verse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Voltaire's Henriade.—Is it known who is the author of the English translation of this poem into blank verse, published in 1732. Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc No English poet has used blank verse with such flexible variety, or p. 168drawn from it so large a compass of tones; nor has any maintained it so equably on a high level of excellence.” Old Familiar Faces The tragedy of Ovid, a regular literary tragedy in careful if not very powerful blank verse, is Cokain's most ambitious effort. A History of Elizabethan Literature Yet in a sense all Browning's blank verse is dramatic. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History And when the concluding fairy masque is toward, blank verse rages. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Many of Abercrombie's poems, the best of which are too long to quote, are founded on scriptural themes, but his blank verse is not biblical either in mood or manner. Modern British Poetry I do believe he's talking in blank verse, Or reasoning in rhyme, which would be worse. Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx But even these faults are perhaps less trying to the modern reader than the inchoate and unpolished condition of the metre in the choruses, and indeed in the blank verse dialogue. A History of Elizabethan Literature Shakspere: As You Like It, 57*; blank verse of, 223 f.; English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History All this being said, it may be asked:—"Why is blank verse the ordinary musical form of Shakspeare's Dramas?" Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Julia Ward Howe had written, and Booth had accepted, a drama in blank verse. Penguin Persons & Peppermints It is possible, however, to write ten-syllabled blank verse in Cornish, provided a fair amount of alliteration is used. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Besides, it was exciting to discover, after the unpopularity of blank verse, what one could do with three Plays written in prose and founded on three public interests deliberately chosen,—religion, humour, patriotism. The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays We have already seen that blank verse departs more constantly from the typical scheme of the measure than any other of our verse-forms. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Our stage and language have settled upon blank verse as the proper metrical form for the proper measure of the unreal upon the ordinary tragic stage. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The young Reciter is seldom happy in his delivery of blank verse. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887 "And yet," continues Finlay, "he continually had the most melodious lines of Shakspeare in his mouth, as examples of blank verse." My Recollections of Lord Byron Translation of extracts into English blank verse, with the original text of the extracts, and a literal translation of them into Latin prose. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography This tragedy, although Dryden curiously instanced it in defence of the use of rime on the stage, was the earliest English drama in blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Rhymed verse has a more marked separation, or is more distant from prose than blank verse is. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Mr. Davidson declares that the true glory of free untrammelled poetry shines out in the rhythmic periods of blank verse. Studies in Literature and History It’s blank verse, as the greatest poetry often is. Patty's Success Wishing to popularize the Beowulf, he used as a medium of translation a peculiarly stilted kind of blank verse. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography No attempt can be made to represent adequately the blank verse of Shakspere. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Is hexameter blank verse alone fit for the mouths of Greek heroes—eight-line stanzas of oft-recurring rhymes for the mouths of Italian? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 At any rate it is certain that all popular verse needs this terminal note; for a ballad in blank verse is inconceivable. Studies in Literature and History But blank verse has only ten syllables: 'I cannot tell what you and other men.' The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' There might be an excuse for some of this freedom in blank verse, but in measures imitative of the Old English it is utterly out of place. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography In other words, Shakspere's own development represents, in a sort of miniature, that of the history of dramatic blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But the "Paradise Lost" is in blank verse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 We might have something to say on the metrical construction of Swinburne's blank verse, for he shares with Tennyson, though in a minor degree, the distinction of having enlarged its scope and varied its measure. Studies in Literature and History When Faust appears he begins to speak at once in modern blank verse of ten syllables, such as we know in Milton and Shakespeare and Schiller. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' In his introduction Hoffmann calls attention to the lack of variety in blank verse, but surely it does not have the monotony inherent in a recurring rime and strophe. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography The verse of Fletcher is highly individual among the Jacobean dramatists, though in a sense typical of the breaking down of blank verse, in the direction of prose, which was going on at this period. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History As well as masque can be,” &c.— and all that follows to “who is return'd”—is plainly blank verse, and falls easily into it. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher And undoubtedly he did break it down so effectually that much of his blank verse hobbles like a lame horse, being often mere prose printed in short lines. Studies in Literature and History To the Renaissance, the genius of Milton contributed an epic in blank verse, the genius of Wren a second in stone. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch It would seem that if there were a measure less suited to the Beowulf style than the Miltonic blank verse used by Conybeare, it would be the ballad measures used by Wackerbarth. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography The blank verse of Milton is characterized by greater freedom and flexibility than that of any earlier poet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History This scene from the beginning is prose printed as blank verse, down to the line— “E'en all the valiant stomachs in the court”— where the verse recommences. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher As to the language and versification, it is in blank verse, and the style is considered by Russians as admirable for ease and flexibility. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 In his Renaissance guise, whether projected upon actual history, as in the person of Richard III, or strutting sublimated through Marlowe's blank verse, he spared at any rate to sentimentalise his brutality. From a Cornish Window A New Edition But shrewdness and good sense cannot make a poem by assuming the measure of blank verse. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 It was with All for Love that Dryden dropped the use of the rimed couplet in tragedy, and turned his hand toward the construction of really noble blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Most of Shakespeare’s plays are written in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter, called heroic verse. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide These aberrant lines are much more common in the dramatic blank verse of the seventeenth century. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Crabbe, for instance, turned back to a versification having much more of Dryden in it; and Byron, in spite of his high opinion of Pope, threw into his lines the rhythm of blank verse. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin Unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter measure, is known as blank verse. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Shakspere's blank verse doubtless exerted a good influence on the quality of Dryden's. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Rhymes are in use but usually their purpose is definite and specific and they may occur occasionally in plays which are otherwise in blank verse. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide It is observable, that he did not take the eleventh, which he had before translated into blank verse; neither did Pope claim it, but committed it to Broome. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II He thought blank verse was verse only to the eye, and found the "numbers" of Lycidas "unpleasing." Dr. Johnson and His Circle Into what does the period practically divide blank verse? Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism This poem was one of those connected with the revival of blank verse, for didactic poetry, near the middle of the eighteenth century. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History I should expect that combination to drive a man either to drink or to blank verse.” Jewel Weed With still less judgment did he choose blank verse as the vehicle of Rural Sports. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II In the blank verse of the early plays a pause is strictly observed at the close of each line, and rhyming couplets are frequent. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Point out a notable difference between Milton's and Shelley's blank verse. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Hence it followed, that when blank verse began again to be written, it found itself very much at the point where it had stood before the appearance of Marlowe. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In his version of two books of the Æneid he was the first to introduce into England the Italian blank verse which was to play so great a part in our literature. History of the English People, Volume IV His blank verses, those that can read them may, probably, find to be like the blank verses of his neighbours. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II By W. S.’ It appropriated many passages from an older piece called ‘Selimus,’ which was possibly by Greene and certainly came p. 180into being long before Shakespeare had written a line of blank verse. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles The language is blank verse, not prose, as in the former works; it is more careful and regular, less ambitious in its object, but more certain of attaining it. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Its blank verse, while having a most complex variety of character, is the most dramatic blank verse since the Elizabethan era.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Louder and faster, with shorter pauses between speeches, the blank verse at times approaching a chant. No Great Magic His dramas had their day, a short day, and are forgotten: his blank verse seems, to my ear, the echo of Thomson. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II The metrical characteristics of Shakespeare’s ‘Troilus and Cressida’—the regularity of the blank verse—powerfully confirm the date of composition which Roberts’s license suggests. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles The new cadences do more than merely prove that Harris had no ear for blank verse. The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold On the blank verse of Surrey, see also an article by Prof. O. J. Emerson, in Modern Language Notes, vol. iv. col. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History "I am Dalrymple," said Rumple, dodging round160 from the shady side of the wagon, where he had been walking and trying to compose blank verse about Australian roadside scenery, but not succeeding over-well. The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking If blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous, it is crippled prose; and familiar images, in laboured language, have nothing to recommend them but absurd novelty, which, wanting the attractions of nature, cannot please long. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II But, whatever its date, The Woman in the Moon must rank among the earliest examples of blank verse in our language, and, as such, its importance is very great. John Lyly Trapp and Brady, both of whom early in the century attempted blank verse renderings of the Aeneid, justify their use of this form on the ground that it permits greater faithfulness to the original. Early Theories of Translation From the other inner rooms he could hear voices; a girl's voice steadily intoning sonorous blank verse; at intervals another voice, interrupting, slow and languid, that set his heart beating hard and his face flushing. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain All blank verse echoed Marlowe's mighty line, and tragedy was filled with ranting conquerors like Tamburlaine, monstrous villains like Barabbas, and murders like that of Edward II. The Facts About Shakespeare His translation from Homer into blank verse will find few readers, while another can be had in rhyme. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II It is easier to write blank verse than to write sonnets. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Philippa occasionally broke into blank verse like this, but not often. Much Darker Days Find examples of blank verse, of rhymed pentameter, and of the two kinds of verse so common in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College He took the entire poem as a model in blank verse. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 His blank verse in Blenheim has neither much force nor much elegance. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Then we was treated to a line of high-brow gush as Amelia inspects the youngster through her shell lorgnette and tries to tell us in impromptu blank verse how wonderful he is. The House of Torchy It is a kind of poetry, but in a form which stands in something the same relation to blank verse which that does to rhyme. The Confidence-Man One's homework is quite enough just now without learning pages of blank verse. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story He learned his blank verse from the dramatists. Milton His plays, the best of which are Manfred and Sardanapālus, are written in blank verse.—His style is remarkable for its strength and elasticity, for its immensely powerful sweep, tireless energy, and brilliant illustrations. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 One Green published a specimen of a new version of the "Paradise Lost" into blank verse! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Swinburne is a great master of blank verse; there is nothing that can be done with blank verse that he cannot do with it. Figures of Several Centuries Since Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, though various poets have adapted it to their own uses, blank verse has shown only one significant development, the conversational, or so-called 'talking,' style. The Principles of English Versification When he began to write blank verse, the blank verse of the dramatists, his contemporaries, was fast degenerating into more or less rhythmical prose. Milton The Comus—mostly in blank verse—is a lyrical drama; and Milton’s work was accompanied by a musical composition by the then famous musician Henry Lawes. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 This play contains several examples of Farquhar's curious habit of breaking out into a kind of broken blank verse occasionally for a few lines in the more serious passages. The Beaux-Stratagem It was written in blank verse, and appeared to abound in descriptions of scenery; there was much mention of mountains, valleys, streams and waterfalls, harebells, and daffodils. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" Note the position of the pauses in the following passage, and then compare the specimens of early blank verse given above. The Principles of English Versification But the last of the three is the essential of Miltonic blank verse. Milton His translation of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer—a translation into blank verse, which he wrote at the regular rate of forty lines a-day—was published in 1791. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Both of them employed the metre of Pope, though Cowper took to blank verse; and Crabbe, though he had read and admired Spenser, was to the end of his career a thorough disciple of Pope. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The only one of the tragic dramatists of the Restoration who prolonged the traditions of the Elisabethan stage, was Otway, whose Venice Preserved, written in blank verse, still keeps the boards. Brief History of English and American Literature It is not always easier to write in unrimed measures, for, as Milton proudly implied, good blank verse is the most difficult of all metres. The Principles of English Versification The history of blank verse reflects with curious exactness the phases of the history of the drama. Milton His greatest poem is Hyperion, written, in blank verse, on the overthrow of the “early gods” of Greece. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 We had a good specimen of this kind of writing from Number 5, who wrote in blank verse, as he said, “after the German.” Boycotted And Other Stories In all of these and in many others the language is rich, stately, involved, and as remote from the "real language" of Westmoreland shepherds, as is the epic blank verse of Milton. Brief History of English and American Literature The greater freedom of syncopation and substitution, of extra syllables and unusual pauses, which characterizes Shakespeare's later blank verse, became almost a norm with Beaumont and Fletcher, Shirley, Ford, and the Jacobean dramatists. The Principles of English Versification By a variety of small observances, which, when fully stated, make up a formidable code, he mended the shambling gait of the loose dramatic blank verse, and made of it a worthy epic metre. Milton Now this verse is not analogous to the iambic trimeter of Sophocles or the blank verse of Shakspere, but roughly corresponds to the Greek choruses or the occasional rhymed songs of the Elizabethan stage. The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika It is impossible to do justice in translation to the exquisite lyrics; but the following soliloquy, from "Borís Godunóff," will serve to show Púshkin's power in blank verse. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Most of his tragedies were written in rime, but in the best of them, All for Love, 1678, founded on Shakspere's Antony and Cleopatra, he returned to blank verse. Brief History of English and American Literature Between 1664 and 1678 it became the fashion, partly as a reaction against the liberties of the late Elizabethan blank verse, and partly under French influence, to write drama in heroic couplets. The Principles of English Versification Every well-marked type of blank verse has a natural gait or movement of its own, which it falls into during its ordinary uninspired moods. Milton "Nothing could be easier, in a blank verse composition," assented Brother Copas gravely. Brother Copas One of his best speeches might be made into blank verse or set to a fugue. The Masques of Ottawa I believe they talk in blank verse with occasional lapses into rhyme. Molly Brown's Orchard Home Shakespeare's blank verse is the supreme manifestation of the measure for dramatic purposes. The Principles of English Versification By his deliberate attention to the elements of verbal melody Milton gave a new character to English blank verse. Milton In this humble way, when the time came, he looked on at the Episode of Henry the Eighth's visit to Merchester, and listened to the blank verse which he himself had written. Brother Copas It was a poetic drama, and the audience, though loath to do anybody an injustice, was beginning to suspect that it was written in blank verse. Jill the Reckless |
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