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Quantitative Verse, Bookselling, and Thomas Campion's "Observations in the Art of English Poesie"

Quantitative Verse, Bookselling, and Thomas Campion's "Observations in the Art of English Poesie"

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Quantitative Verse, Bookselling, and Thomas Campion's "Observations in the Art of English Poesie"

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Quantitative Verse, Bookselling, and Thomas Campion's "Observations in the Art of English Poesie"

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Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

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Rocky Mountain review of language and literature, 2007-04, Vol.61 (1), p.11-34

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English

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Thomas Campion's "Observations in the Art of English Poesie" (1602) critiques the use of rhyme and meter in English poetry and develops the prosodic foundation for vernacular quantitative verse. However, the treatise also responds to what Campion saw as the unfortunate conditions under which learned, serious poets had to labor and reacts to the ris...

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Quantitative Verse, Bookselling, and Thomas Campion's "Observations in the Art of English Poesie"

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TN_cdi_jstor_primary_20058141

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0361-1299

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