![]() When Gerard Manley Hopkins visited Bridges in mid August 1886, they discussed Bridges' work on the preface. Beeching wanted something to counter the prevailing da-DUM-da-DUM style of reading, that artificially distorted words to fit the regular pattern of the iambic pentameter rhythm. ![]() The final section of the book presents a new system of prosody for accentual verse.īridges had been asked by Henry Beeching, his local vicar, to write a preface for an edition of Paradise Lost that Beeching was preparing for sixth-form pupils. A third section deals with 'obsolete mannerisms'. ![]() It was first published by Oxford University Press in 1889, and a final revised edition was published in 1921.īridges begins with a detailed empirical analysis of the blank verse of Paradise Lost, and then examines the changes in Milton's practice in his later poems Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Milton's Prosody, with a chapter on Accentual Verse and Notes is a book by Robert Bridges. ![]()
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