Tennyson's 'metre of Catullus': The Ambivalent Hendecasyllable
- Author / Editor
- Duffell, Martin J.
Tennyson's 'metre of Catullus': The Ambivalent Hendecasyllable
- Published
- Language and Literature 22.1 (2013): 19-31.
- Description
- Argues that, "while Tennyson thought he was composing quantitative hendecasyllables, he was in fact producing accentual verse of a type that English poets had been studiously avoiding for 500 years." Traces the development of Chaucer's iambic pentameter, through its recovery in Spenser and Sydney.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion