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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Correspondence, 1827, Hope End, England, with I. Commeline, Jr., Cowley, England.

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Correspondence, 1827, Hope End, England, with I. Commeline, Jr., Cowley, England.

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[1] 1827, March 2, I. Commeline, Jr. to Miss Barrett [3 p.].--Sends her Mr. Price's lengthy correspondence on "the prosodical question." [2] 1827, May 7, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to I. Commeline, Jr. [6 p.]. Believed to be a copy made by Miss Barrett of the letter sent.--Discusses prosody, metre, dithyrambs, scansion and their uses. [3] 1827, June, I. Commeline, Jr., to Miss Barrett [14 p.]--Discusses and enlarges upon their argument on the Greek and English principles of meter, emphasizing the questions of time, quantity and accent. [4] 1827, December 1, I. Commeline, Jr. to Miss Barrett [8 p.].--Argues that Mr. Price's theory "vis: that length is conferred by Emphasis" in poetic meter, is untenable.