My remarks on Swift and Pope were a bit sweeping. I'm slightly more
familiar with Marvell.
Thank you for your response.
Nicholas
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From: Martin J. Walker <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: Prose poem
> The reference to Pope puzzles me rather ~ surely he was a pentameter
man?
> I found your discussion of Marvell very illuminating, Nicholas. As
to
> Swift's "endstopped" lines:
> Cadenus felt within him rise
> Shame, Disappointment, Guilt, Surprize;
> He knew not how to reconcile
> Such Language, with her usual Style ~
> Of course, he often does endstop lines, even on that page, and I
opened the
> volume at random, so this just might be an exception, but my
recollection is
> of tremendously varied colloquial force, in the expression & the
rhythm.
> Martin
>
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