An edition of The laws of verse
(1870)
The laws of verse
or, Principles of versification exemplified in metrical translations : together with an annotated reprint of the inaugural presidential address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter
by Sylvester, James Joseph, 1814-1897
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS.
Laws of Verse , or Principles of Versification , exemplified in Metrical Translations
I. Translation of Hor. Od. iii. 29.
Exhibition of perdnalistic or dichotomous plan 25
Original 26-28
Translation 27-31
Notes 30-41
Criticism of Conington's Version 42
Function of Ryme in Verse 44
Laws of Anastomosis and Syzygy 45
The Alcaic Stanza formulated 47
Evidence of Horace's native Mathematical Power 48
Poeta fit, non nascitur 49
IX Schiller — 'Die Ideale' 49
Theory of the Diphthong 50
III. Uhiand — 'Des Goldschmieds Tochterlein' 53
IV. Schiller — 'Cassandra' 56
Theory of Alliteration ib
V. Goethe — ' Trost in Thranen' 62
Formation of the feminine transcendental pluperfect superlative adjective 63
Synectic, the Author's right-of-way into the Realm of Rhythm 64
'Synectic' explained ib.
Concerning modern Metric and accentual Feet 65
Metre in terms of Music 66
Rhythmical rests 67
Metric Criticism of opening lines of 'Bride of Abydos,' &c ib.
Imaginary Rhythmical time 69
Success of experimental Recital of Example I 70
VI. Hob. Od. III. 29 — Earlier Version 71
VII. Schiller — 'Anden Friihling' 74
VIII. Blumaukr — 'Andie Donau' 75
Spontaneous Generation of the present Version ib
IX. Uhland — 'Der Wirthin Tochterlein' 76
X. Rucxert — 'Die Locke der Begrabenen' 77
XI. Uhland — 'Das Schloss am Meere' 79
Syzygetic Key 81
Anonymous Poems.
XII. The Evening Star 81
XIII. Acrostic 82
IV. Winter ib.
XV. To an Ink-spot upon a Lady's cheek 83
XVI. Melancholy ib.
XVH. April 30 85
XVHI. Indifference 86
XIX. Remonstrance 87
XX. Faith 88
XXI. Kepler's Apostrophe 89
XXII. ' Occhi ! stelle immortali' 91
XXIII. What's in a Name ? ib.
XXIV. Hor. Od. III. xxvii. 25. — The Story of Europa 93
Notes — Media* fraudes: its twelve meanings 95
Virginum culpa and Professor Newman 96
Nomina : transcendental significance of the plural form 97
Inaugural Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, at Exeter, August, 1869.
Introductory Remarks 101
Vindication of the mathematician as man — Homo mathematicus 105
Professor Huxley's opinions on mathematical science — his parallel of grammatical and mathematical training 106
Mathematics as dependent on invention and observation — Examples of mathematical euristic 108
Contact-points of faith and knowledge in mathematics 114
Mathematical discover dependent on observation of mathematical phenomena 115
The theory of reducible cyclodes 117
The place of physical science relative to mathematics 119
Healthful effect of mathematical meditation on mind and body — Dii majores of the mathematical Pantheon 121
Mental and spiritual gratification furnished by mathematics 123
Mathematics the science of continuity 125
Examples of mathematical relations 127
Concluding remarks 129
Postscript — Letter from Dr. Jacobi ib.
APPENDIX.
On the Incorrect Description of Kant's Doctrine of Space and Time common in English writers Correspondence on the part of :
G. H. Lewes 131
T. H. Huxley 132
C. M. Ingleby 133
J. J. Sylvester ib.
G. H. Lewes 134
G. Groom Robertson 138
W. H. Stanley Monck ib.
J. J. Sylvester 140
George Henry Lewes 143
W. H. Stanley Monck 146
Catena of passages from the foregoing correspondence bearing on Mr. Lewes' final letter 148
Illustration of author's position drawn from Mr. Herbert Spencer's supposed refutation of Kant 161
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