My wife, for whom the research is, wrote:
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Of course, Bridges. I should have known. Tried to set one of his poems to
music (about 40+ years ago; problem was not being a good enough pianist to
write an adequate piano part), and thinking back over the melody, it's clear
I was aware of the rhythmic requirements. I think he had a lot more
influence in his day than his readership these days might suggest. I wonder
now if he himself deliberately set this syllabic hare running, being as he
was in close correspondence with Hopkins and his so different prosodic
developments.
Do thank Robin for me, I'd be most interested in the article. Am sure he's
right about the classical slosh-over, remembering how I tried to write
Virgilian hexameters in the sixth-form, fully expecting to end up with
something vaguely Miltonic, and instead got something like rudimentary
sprung rhythm <<<<<
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