Neo-Miltonic syllabics

Neo-Miltonic Syllabics is a group of poems written by Robert Bridges between 1921 and 1925, and collected in his book New Verse (1925).In Kate's Mother he had found the form which he later employed in The Testament of Beauty written when he was over eighty.^[1]This anthology based on a syllabic meter, which Bridges arrived at through his detailed analysis of Milton's poems, is explained in detail in his book Milton's Prosody.

The first poem in this form was 'Poor Poll', which F. T. Prince regarded as the best illustration of Bridges' meter.

Notes

1. ^ Collins A.S. Collins,English Literature of the Twentieth Century,University Tutorial Pres1951

References

• Bridges, Robert: The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Oxford Editions of Standard Authors, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 1936.
• Prince, F.T., Collected Poems: 1935 – 1992, The Sheep Meadow Press, 1993. ISBN 1-878818-16-3. See the author's note to the poem Afterword on Rupert Brooke.
• Stanford, Donald E.: In the Classic Mode: The Achievement of Robert Bridges, Associated University Presses, 1978. ISBN 0-87413-118-9