Radical metre: The English hexameter in Clough's Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich

Review of English Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 198, 1999, Pages 166-187

  Phelan, Joseph Patrick ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/res/50.198.166     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. See M. Thorpe (ed.), Clough: The Critical Heritage (New York, 1972), 43
2. Thorpe, Critical Heritage, 66, 348
3. G. Saintsbury, A History of English Prosody (London, 1910), iii. 408
4. The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough, ed. F. L. Mulhauser (Oxford, 1974), pp. xviii-xx
5. The Bothie: The Text of 1848, ed. P. Scott (St Lucia, 1976), 7
6. 'Clough's hexameters are a tissue of irregularities which the most favourably disposed reader cannot succeed in organising around an original and governing idea': P. Veyriras, Arthur Hugh Clough (Paris, 1964), 288
7. Classical Museum, 1 (1844), 339
8. Steele's Prosodia Rationalis (1779) did not invent the bar-foot analogy, but made the crucial innovation of introducing the notion of the 'rest' to scansion: see P. Fussell, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-century England (New London, Conn., 1954), 142
9. Classical Museum, 1: 354
10. See also (for example) R. H. Home's 'Remarks on Translation' in vol. 1, and Francis Newman's 'On the Pronunciation of Greek' in vol. 3
11. Classical Museum, 3 (1846), 279
12. Classical Museum, 4 (1847), 321
13. Classical Museum, 3: 382, 399
14. Classical Museum, 4: 350
15. See W. Anderson, 'Arnold and the Classics', in I. Armstrong (ed.), Writers and their Background: Matthew Arnold (London, 1975), 262
16. Clough, Prose Remains (London, 1888), 400
17. Anderson, 'Arnold and the Classics', 262
18. J. S. Blackie, The Pronunciation of Greek: Accent and Quantity (London, 1852), 32
19. Used in an 1848 pamphlet on the subject of university reform; see D. Birch, Ruskin's Myths (Oxford, 1988), 34
20. Keble's Lectures on Poetry 1832-41, trans. E. K. Francis (Oxford, 1912), i. 97
21. Matthew Arnold, 'On Translating Homer', in The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, ed. R. H. Super (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960), i. 99, 119
22. F. W. Newman, Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice: A Reply to Matthew Arnold, Esq. (1861)
23. Arnold also, incidentally, patronized Blackie in similar terms, describing him in a letter to his sister as 'an animated, pleasant man, with a liking for all sorts of things that are excellent', but also as 'an esprit as confused and hoity toity as possible, and as capable of translating Homer as of making the Apollo Belvedere': Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. G. W. E. Russell (London, 1901), i. 109
24. See G. Faber, Jowett (London, 1957), 194-6. Stanley and Tait eventually became secretary and member respectively of the Oxford University Commission set up by parliament in 1850
25. Cited in J. C. Reid, The Mind and Art of Coventry Patmore (London, 1957), 232
26. J. S. Blackie, On the Living Language of the Greeks, and its Utility to the Classical Scholar (Edinburgh, 1853), 24
27. See the chapter on The Bothie in R. Edmond, Affairs of the Hearth (London and New York, 1988)