It is "contrived into three books: He deprecates the use of archaisms, and although he allows that the purer Saxon speech is spoken beyond the Trent , he advises the English writer to take as his model the usual speech of the court, of London and the home counties.
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All subjects, including science and law, were in primitive times written in verse, and the types of poetry number in the dozens. Because it is decorated with versification and figures of speech, poetry is a more persuasive and melodious form of language, and is very much given to structure and accuracy. The countless examples of dignities and promotions given to poets throughout history, and the numerous examples of royal poets, show up the ignorance of Renaissance courtiers who suppress their poetry or publish under a pseudonym.
He adduces five points to English verse structure: The staff, or stanza , is four to ten lines that join without intermission and finish up all of the sentences thereof. Each length of stanza suits a poetic tone and genre. Each is overlaid by a closed rhyme scheme.
This latter, termed "band" 65 and "enterlacement" 70 , is of primary concern to Puttenham. He views English as having solely a syllabic system of measure, or metre.
The length of lines may alternate in patterns that support the rhyme scheme, and so increase the band. Syllabic length is a factor but accentuation is not. Caesura should occur at the same place in every line; it helps to keep up distinctness and clarity, two virtues of civil language.
The matching of line lengths, rhymed at the end, in symmetrical patterns, is a further accommodation. A number of graphs are shown to illustrate the variety of rhyme schemes and line-length patterns, or situation. The poet who can work melodiously within the strictures of versification proves a "crafts master," a valuable literary virtue. Proportion in figure is the composition of stanzas in graphic forms ranging from the rhombus to the spire.
Since language is inherently artificial, and "not naturall to man" , the added artifice of figures is particularly suitable. Figures give more "pithe and substance, subtilitie, quicknesse, efficacie or moderation, in this or that sort tuning and tempring them by amplification, abridgement, opening, closing, enforcing, meekening or otherwise disposing them to the best purpose From page to , Puttenham lists and analyses figures of speech. His book concludes with a lengthy analysis of "decency," and the artificial and natural dimensions of language. Many later "poetics" are indebted to this book.
The original edition is very rare. Edward Arber 's reprint contains a clear summary of the various documents with regard to the authorship of this treatise. There is currently debate about Puttenham's relative authority in comparison to these other figures. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Texas Studies in Literature and Language. University of Texas Press. The Art of English Poesy: A Cambridge Alumni Database.
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