{"id":117,"date":"2016-06-24T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T20:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/?p=117"},"modified":"2021-10-28T20:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T00:35:59","slug":"h-d-and-ben-jonson-intense-rhythms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/h-d-and-ben-jonson-intense-rhythms\/","title":{"rendered":"H.D. and Ben Jonson: Intense Rhythms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lecture mentions H.D.\u2019s line: \u201cmore precious than a wet rose.\u201d Here are other examples of that formal effect of putting stressed syllables together:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barnabe Googe (in John Williams&#8217; anthology <em>English Renaissance Poetry<\/em>), from \u201cOn Money\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fair face show friends, when money doth abound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yusef Komunyakaa in \u201cThe Edges\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As good-bye kisses are thrown<\/p>\n<p>to the charred air, silhouettes of jets<br \/>\nease over nude bodies in straw mats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ezra Pound in Canto I:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And the ship like a keel in ship-yard,<br \/>\nslung like an ox in smith\u2019s sling,<br \/>\nRibs stuck fast in the waves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir Phillip Sidney in &#8220;Astrophil and Stella 30&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With how, sad steps, O moon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lecture mentions H.D.\u2019s line: \u201cmore precious than a wet rose.\u201d Here are other examples of that formal effect of putting stressed syllables together: Barnabe Googe (in John Williams&#8217; anthology English Renaissance Poetry), from \u201cOn Money\u201d: Fair face show friends, when money doth abound. Yusef Komunyakaa in \u201cThe Edges\u201d: As good-bye kisses are thrown to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}