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Since a computer prefers to read numbers, McDonough designed an eight-digit code covering all possibilities in the Iliad's 250,000 syllables. The digits represent eight variables: syllables at the beginning, middle or end of words, and monosyllables, all four of which can be either long or short...
*Judith G. Kirshner '62 has received the John Osborne Sargent Award for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace.
To revert once again to the program notes, "Jacques Bersani and T. Morris rendered into almost modern French, pretty much metrical" the original version of the play, and very elegant and amusing almost metrical modern French it is. They kept the octosyllabic line, the often complicated rhyme scheme, and, most...
There is plenty that is pure Brahms in this work, such as the perfect balance between the Romantic material and its Classical treatment; the special textures and spacings in the scoring; and the frequent rhythmical and metrical subtleties. And idea after idea is characterized by what the Germans call "Schwung...
"Some years later, another man with a Harvard connection (gloriously!),I.A. Richards, sold his first gleaming set of metrical tools. Designed primarily for processing poetry, this stunning new creation did not supplant the earlier innovation; indeed, Richards' tool set complemented the Eliot invention, and enhanced its production. Now all they...