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To this edition of "The Unknown Eros" are added all the other poems I have written, in what I venture--because it hasno other name--to call "catalectic verse." Nearly all English metres owe their existence as metres to "catalexis," orpause, for the time of one or more feet, and, as a rule, the position and amount of catalexis are fixed. But the verse inwhich this volume is written is catalectic par excellence, employing the pause (as it does the rhyme) with freedom onlylimited by the exigencies of poetic passion. From the time of Drummond of Hawthornden to our own, some of thenoblest flights of English poetry have been taken on the wings of this verse; but with ordinary readers it has been moreor less discredited by the far greater number of abortive efforts, on the part sometimes of considerable poets, to adapt itto purposes with which it has no expressional correspondence; or to vary it by rhythmical movements which aredestructive of its character.
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- Author
- Coventry Patmore
- Publisher
- eBook TaheAway
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, European Poetry, Humanities
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