GASCOIGNE AND TRISSINO: VERNACULAR METRE AND ACCENTUAL FEET
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In 1575 George Gascoigne broke with tradition, by attempting to describe the English verse line neither as a Romance accumulation of syllables nor as a classically ordered disposition of longs and shorts but as a grid of prominent and non-prominent accents. I will discuss elsewhere Gascoigne’s peculiar achievement in repurposing the terminology of Greco-Roman speech accent for the analysis of metrical stress, and its implications. My purpose here is simply to note that Gascoigne may not have been travelling quite alone.
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English literature, 1500-1599, Gascoigne, George(1525-1577), 0000 0000 7358 2970, prose, <i>Certayne Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Ryme in English</i>, poetry, stress, versification, Trissino, Gian Giorgio(1478-1550), <i>Grammatichetta</i>, Italian literature
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0029-3970
1471-6941
1471-6941
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Oxford University Press (OUP)