Kent:
> Now hold your galloping horses there, Michael. No less an authority than
> T.V.F. Brogan has personally telegrammed me to say the following:
Get a life. I don't BELIEVE this (and I know I said I wouldn't post
frontchannel before I sobered up, but ...)
Are we talking Brogan the Editor of PEPP (1993) or Brogan the compiler of
Versification/Bibliograpy (URL on request)? Neither case can I see him (OK,
I may be wrong) telegramming you.
>"Dear Kent
> [stop] The a. is rare in Cl. prosody either as an independent unit or as a
> continuous meter, and equally a rarity in the accentually based prosodies
of
> the mod. langs., suggesting it may not exist except as an experiment.
[stop]
> Tom [stop
"amphibrach" makes some sense in Classical/Qualitative but sweet fanny adams
in terms of syllable-accent.
> I telegramed Tom back and this is what I said: Dear Tom: [stop] What I
don't
> get is this thing about how the foot 'may not exist'. [stop] I mean, I
agree
> that it doesn't exist, but how does an iamb or a trochee any more 'exist'
> than an amphibrach or a pyrrhic 'exist'? [stop] Kent [stop]"
Kent, if you're really in touch with Brogan ...
Ah ... This is probably a Kent Johnson joke.
But either you're playing games, or It's All True.
In which case, I'm insanely jealous -- how come you get to chat with Brogan
on metrics and not me?
Not fair.
Robin
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