...how he writes. As Milton found it necessary to his purpose in his great poem to reject rhyme, as " the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre," so Whitman thought it was necessary to his purpose to cast aside the technique of the schools...

...blinded by his predilection for the ancient classics, calls rhyme (in the preface to " Paradise Lost") " the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre; a thing of itself to all judicious ears trivial and of no true musical delight." Trench answers...

...Jarre with time, Still may reason warre with rime Resting never, &c., &c. Milton condemns rhyme as " the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by custom, but much...

...rejects the contemporary courtly fashion of rhymed couplets in favour of blank verse. Terming rhyme 'the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter, and lame metre', Milton argues that rhyme arrests meaning in a way analogous to the processes by which monarchs...

...of his own heroic originals here, Milton's statement at the beginning of Paradise Lost about rhyme's 'being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse . . . but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre'. There is more...

...Riming," which, Milton declaims, is "no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, . . . but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter.") The use of syllable counting, plus the new emphasis on rhyme, also allowed English poetry...

...measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek and Virgil in Latin, rime being.. .but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre". (Milton, Poetical Works, p. 43). 7Cf. Tristram, "Mdtriques". Vf. Bernhard Bischoff, "Die europäische...

...calling into question their interpretive practice. Milton in a note on Paradise Lost describes rhyme as "the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter." 10 The rhymes of the chorus create a sing-song quality that trivializes "the matter" of their statement....

...But that is precisely what happened. Introducing Paradise Lost (1674), John Milton identified rime as "the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame meter," and in the poem itself he scorned chivalric romance. Rime had, he conceded, been "graced ......

...Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin ; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem...some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but must to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the...