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The Fetters of Rhyme
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Description: How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry
In his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme, portraying himself as a revolutionary freeing English verse from "the troublesome and modern bondage of Riming." Despite his claim to be a pioneer, Milton was not initiating a new line of thought-English poets had been debating about rhyme and its connections to liberty, freedom, and constraint since Queen Elizabeth's reign. The Fetters of Rhyme traces this dynamic history of rhyme from the 1590s through the 1670s. Rebecca Rush uncovers the surprising associations early modern readers attached to rhyming forms like couplets and sonnets, and she shows how reading poetic form from a historical perspective yields fresh insights into verse's complexities.
Rush explores how early modern poets imagined rhyme as a band or fetter, comparing it to the bonds...
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Title: The Fetters of Rhyme
Author: Rebecca M. Rush
Language: English
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