The Springs of Helicon a Study in the Progress of English Poetry From Chaucer T
The Springs of Helicon a Study in the Progress of English Poetry From Chaucer T
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But the new verse was capable of answering any demand made on it ; once its capacities had been ascertained, the poets who had worked without it were like that people in the Odyssey who did not know the use 44 CHAUCER of oars ovtf evr'jpe eper/xa, TO. Re Trrepct vrjv(r\ " that are to ships as wings are to a bird. " In his earlier period Chaucer had used many other metres than the eight-syllabled couplet ; he used several stanza-forms for continuous poetry, besides a profusion of lyric measures.... To his central period, associated mainly with the rhyme- royal, belongs the invention and conquest of the heroic couplet. Palamon and Arcite may indeed have been remodelled later from an earlier version in stanzas, though to say that it was so remodelled is a mere assumption, but the Legend of Good Women shows the new metre in its perfection. In the Canterbury Tales, while the new verse is immensely preponderant, six stories are in other metres. It will be worth while going into this point a little more closely, both on its own account, and because it leads up to the larger question how far the whole body of writing included in the Canterbury Tales is poetry, and what place that poetry holds in Chaucer's total poetic achievement.
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But the new verse was capable of answering any demand made on it ; once its capacities had been ascertained, the poets who had worked without it were like that people in the Odyssey who did not know the use 44 CHAUCER of oars ovtf evr'jpe eper/xa, TO. Re Trrepct vrjv(r\ " that are to ships as wings are to a bird. " In his earlier period Chaucer had used many other metres than the eight-syllabled couplet ; he used several stanza-forms for continuous poetry, besides a profusion of lyric measures.... To his central period, associated mainly with the rhyme- royal, belongs the invention and conquest of the heroic couplet. Palamon and Arcite may indeed have been remodelled later from an earlier version in stanzas, though to say that it was so remodelled is a mere assumption, but the Legend of Good Women shows the new metre in its perfection. In the Canterbury Tales, while the new verse is immensely preponderant, six stories are in other metres. It will be worth while going into this point a little more closely, both on its own account, and because it leads up to the larger question how far the whole body of writing included in the Canterbury Tales is poetry, and what place that poetry holds in Chaucer's total poetic achievement.
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