The Triumph of Form: A Study of the Later Masters of the Heroic Couplet

Absalom and Achitophel achievements alliteration appears balance balanced line caesura characteristic Churchill Churchill's context contrast Cooper's Hill couplet form Cowper Crabbe Crabbe's critical Denham Deserted Village device didactic Dinah Doren DRY DRY DRY Dryden and Pope effect end-stopped enjambed epilogue Epistle ev'ry example fame feminine rhymes following couplet following line following passage four four-stress fourth Gay's Goldsmith Gotham heroic couplet heroic-couplet poems Hogarth Human Wishes humorous iambic irony John Dryden John Gay Johnson Keats kind last couplet later masters meaning metrical foot mock-heroic narrative neo-classic o'er Oliver Goldsmith ORU ORU ORU parallel pastoral poet poetic poetry Pope's portrait praise pride Prologue pyrrhic repetition reveal Rosciad Rural Sports satire sound story stresses structure style Sybil syllable syntactic syntax T. S. Eliot technical theme thought tone tradition triplet TRIUMPH OF FORM trochaic Vanity of Human variations verb verse paragraph Waller Warburton Young