Manly Anniversary Studies in Language and Literature (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Manly Anniversary Studies in Language and Literature

I include pauses marked by a semicolon or more, and of course exclude cases where the second half-line is complete in itself. In the three hundred and fifty lines Of Judith, there are some ninety such enjambements; as many in an equal portion Of Genesis, nearly as 'many in Elene and Beowulf, and many in the shorter narratives and the lyrics. Such lines are extremely rare in Laaamon, so rare in fact that it is Clear the poet av...