...what could induce me to write in so difficult a measure, I can only answer that it pleases my ear, and seems, from its Gothic structure and original,...the couplet, as well as the more complex modulation of blank verse. What some critics have remarked, of its uniformity growing at last tiresome to the...

...dieser Stanze besonders gerühmt: // admits both simplicity and magnificence of sound and langnage, beyond any other stanza that I am acquainted with. It allows the sententionsness of the couplet, as well as the more complex modulation of blank verse*. Gegen Ende...

...attested in the reasons which the poet assigns for his choice of this : " it pleases my ear," he says, " and seems, from its Gothic structure and original,...some relation to the subject and spirit of the poem." Two points in connection with the general reaction in form must be made clear. In the first place,...

...wählt die Strophenform, die, wie er in der Vorrede sagt, "from its Gothic structure and original seeins to bear some relation to the subject and spirit of the Poem." Aber hier spielt er seine Rolle schlecht, er zwingt der groß angelegten Stanze den kurzatmigen, knappen...

...sacred ". And the reason why he adopted the Spenserian measure he tells us was, "that it pleases my ear, and seems, from its Gothic structure and original,...the couplet, as well as the more complex modulation of blank verse. What some critics have remarked, of its uniformity growing at last tiresome to the...

...the objections of Johnson and others to the Spenserian stanza, Beattie writes, "It pleases my ear, and seems, from its Gothic structure and original,...some relation to the subject and spirit of the Poem" (4). Beattie does not spell out what he means by "gothic structure" or "spirit," yet the political...

...what could induce me to write in so difficult a measure, I can only answer, that it pleases my ear, and seems, from its Gothic structure and original,...of sound and of language, beyond any other stanza I am acquainted with. The Spenserian stanza was to be a favourite of the second generation of Romantic...