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"The very existence of poetry should make us laugh. What is it all about? What is it for?"
--Kenneth Koch
“El subtítulo ‘Modelo para armar’ podría llevar a creer que las
diferentes partes del relato, separadas por blancos, se proponen como piezas permutables.”
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2 oct 2010
Saintsbury is the greatest historian of prosody, the one who best captured the shape and development of English verse. I don't think he's the best theoretician of prosody or scanner of lines. He was firmly in the foot-sub school.
I think Saintsbury simply lived too early and didn't have enough data to construct a good theory of prosody. As for his talents as a scanner, I think he's intermittently very good indeed -- e.g. on Wordsworth's immortality ode.
Fair point. I think I would have to devote a lot more time to looking at his theories and analyzing his scansions before I made a definitive judgment. My point was that his history can be valid even in many respects even if we end up not agreeing with him on theoretical points.
I think Saintsbury simply lived too early and didn't have enough data to construct a good theory of prosody. As for his talents as a scanner, I think he's intermittently very good indeed -- e.g. on Wordsworth's immortality ode.
ResponderEliminarFair point. I think I would have to devote a lot more time to looking at his theories and analyzing his scansions before I made a definitive judgment. My point was that his history can be valid even in many respects even if we end up not agreeing with him on theoretical points.
ResponderEliminarI've been daydreaming about what a prosody based on modern phonology would actually look like.
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