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" Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting... "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series ... - Página 13
editado por - 1810
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John Dryden, Volumen10

John Dryden - 1987 - 994 páginas
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John Dryden

Harold Bloom - 1987 - 258 páginas
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Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer

Ruth Morse, Barry Windeatt - 2006 - 296 páginas
...of Chaucer's metre in the available editions there is nothing condescending in his characterization ('There is the rude Sweetness of a Scotch Tune in...which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect', p. 165). Other than in language and versification, Dryden compares Chaucer favourably against Ovid:...
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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1385-1837

Derek Brewer - 2003 - 355 páginas
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From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variation ...

Dennis Freeborn - 1998 - 502 páginas
...confess, is not harmonious to us ... They who liv'd with him, and some time after him, thought it Musical There is the rude Sweetness of a Scotch tune in it,...which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. and he criticised the editor of an earlier late- 16th century printed edition of Chaucer, ... for he...
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Who is Buried in Chaucer's Tomb?: Studies in the Reception of Chaucer's Book

Joseph A. Dane - 1998 - 328 páginas
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The Just and the Lively: The Literary Criticism of John Dryden

Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 páginas
...harmonious' (Dryden fails to recognize that in Chaucer's pentameters a final 'e' is an unstressed syllable): I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition...really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine ... It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses which are lame for want of half...
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Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text ...

Thomas Augustine Prendergast, Barbara Kline - 1999 - 320 páginas
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Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern

Stephanie Trigg - 2002 - 312 páginas
...Chaucer's meter and his incomplete pentameters, at the expense of Thomas Speght, "he who publish'd the last Edition of him; for he would make us believe...really Ten Syllables in a Verse where we find but Nine" (1453, lines 338-40l. Dryden thus adopts and elaborates the sixteenth -century writerly hierarchies,...
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Fables Ancient and Modern Translated Into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace ...

John Dryden - 2003 - 604 páginas
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