Prosodia Rationalis

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Prosodia Rationalis

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prosody
The 18th century
Joshua Steele’s Prosodia Rationalis (1779) is an early attempt to scan English verse by means of musical notation. (A later attempt was made by the American poet Sidney Lanier in his Science of English Verse, 1880.) Steele’s method is highly personal, depending on an idiosyncratic assigning of…
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Joshua Steele’s Prosodia Rationalis (1779) is an early attempt to scan English verse by means of musical notation. (A later attempt was made by the American poet Sidney Lanier in his Science of English Verse, 1880.) Steele’s method is highly personal, depending on an idiosyncratic assigning of…
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