...Jarre with time, Still may reason warre with rime Resting never, &c., &c. Milton condemns rhyme as " the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by custom, but much to their...

...woods, and pastures new. THB VERSE OF "PARADISE LOST." "The measure fa English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer In Greek, and of Virgil in Latin ; Rime being no necessavy Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention...

...expressed a more lofty and tragic height ; never any represented Nature more purely to the life." — The invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre, etc. In Roger Ascham's Schole-Master (1571), there is a passage which re1 dicious ears, trivial and...

...years earlier in the prefatory note to Paradise Lost:4 The Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in...barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much...

...rejects the contemporary courtly fashion of rhymed couplets in favour of blank verse. Terming rhyme 'the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter, and lame metre', Milton argues that rhyme arrests meaning in a way analogous to the processes by which monarchs suppress...

...reafon prefixed to that edition we are thus informed : " The meafure is Englifh heroic verfe without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, producing that true mufical delight, which confifts only in apt numbers, fit quantity of fyllables,...

...of his own heroic originals here, Milton's statement at the beginning of Paradise Lost about rhyme's 'being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse . . . but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre'. There is more...

...measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek and Virgil in Latin, rime being.. .but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre". (Milton, Poetical Works, p. 43). 7Cf. Tristram, "Mdtriques". Vf. Bernhard Bischoff, "Die europäische...

...Riming," which, Milton declaims, is "no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, . . . but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter.") The use of syllable counting, plus the new emphasis on rhyme, also allowed English poetry...

...But that is precisely what happened. Introducing Paradise Lost (1674), John Milton identified rime as "the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame meter," and in the poem itself he scorned chivalric romance. Rime had, he conceded, been "graced ......