Hallo:
Are you sur that M.L. West nneds an RIP? If so, could you let me know
since about when? I hadn't heard.
Thanks,
jbl
J.B. Lethbridge, PhD
English Seminar
University of Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 50
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, David Wilson-Okamura wrote:
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:53:49 -0400
> From: David Wilson-Okamura <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: Literary numerology
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> If we're talking about "How do you make a real hexameter?" then of
> course we should all agree with M. L. West. (R.I.P. We shall not see his
> like again.) But that's not the relevant question. Instead, we need to
> ask, "How did Spenser and Sidney and the whole gang of metrical vandals
> _think_ you make a dactylic hexameter?" To answer that, you do what
> Attridge did: you find the books that they read, and see how _those
> books_ explained the meter. Even if they were wrong! Which they were,
> about a lot of things!
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