"When Klopstock England defied":1 Coleridge, Southey and the German/English hexameter

From: Comparative Literature | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Bernhardt-Kabisch, Ernest | Copyright information

LATE IN SEPTEMBER OF 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge sent his clergyman brother George a somewhat condensed metrical paraphrase in dactylic hexameters, complete with prosodie markings, of "one of [his] favorite psalms" Psalm 46, telling his brother that, "allowing trochees for spondees as the nature of our language demands" he would find it "pretty accurate a Scansion":2

God is our Strength and our Refuge: therefore will we not tremble,

Tho' the Earth be removed and tho' the perpe...

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